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The Gods of Tango

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by Carolina de Robertis
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Availability:In StockContributor:Carolina de RobertisPublish date:2016-05-17Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781101872857ISBN-10:1101872853UPC:9781101872857Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Romance, Hispanic & Latino, Coming of AgeBook Topic:LGBTQ+Size:7.80 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCVMT21TY9
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015

An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015

Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father's cherished violin to her name, seventeen-year-old Leda is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach is dead. Unable to return home, alone, and on the brink of destitution, she finds herself seduced by the tango, the dance that underscores every aspect of life in her new city. Knowing that she can never play in public as a woman, Leda disguises herself as a young man to join a troupe of musicians. In the illicit, scandalous world of brothels and cabarets, the line between Leda and her disguise begins to blur, and forbidden longings that she has long kept suppressed are realized for the first time. Powerfully sensual, The Gods of Tango is an erotically charged story of music, passion, and the quest for an authentic life against the odds.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781101872857ISBN-10:1101872853UPC:9781101872857Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Romance, Hispanic & Latino, Coming of AgeBook Topic:LGBTQ+Size:7.80 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCVMT21TY9
Carolina De Robertis, a writer of Uruguayan origins, is the author of two previous novels, Perla and The Invisible Mountain (a Best Book of 2009 according to the San Francisco Chronicle; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Booklist), and the recipient of Italy's Rhegium Julii Prize and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her writings and literary translations have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Granta, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the anthology Immigrant Voices, and elsewhere. Her novels have been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Oakland, California.
Publisher: Vintage

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