The Gods of Tango
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101872853 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet her request is granted. The evolution of her life as a man and as a musician is told alongside the social history of Argentina as well as the history of the tango as it changes over time, affected by assorted cultural and class influences. From School Library Journal This beautifully lyrical story opens in 1913, when Leda, a young woman from a small village in Italy, sails to Buenos Aires to join her husband, Dante, who emigrated three years earlier. Rather than risk falling into poverty and
Powerfully sensual, The Gods of Tango is an erotically charged story of music, passion, and the quest for an authentic life against the odds.. Knowing that she can never play in public as a woman, Leda disguises herself as a young man to join a troupe of musicians. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015Arriving 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. 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
She lives in Oakland, California. Her writings and literary translations have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Granta, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the anthology Immigrant Voices, and elsewhere. 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 Magazin
"The Gods of Tango is a historical novel about gender" according to Suzanne LeBaron. The Gods of Tango is a historical novel about gender identity and sexuality that is very much in the current moment. This book is lush, sexy, and gritty. There are so many possibilities for discourse here: immigration, gender identity, trans safety, the value of women in society, political uprising, same-sex bonds just to name a few.. Ina Mitchell said One of the best books that I've read this year.. Fascinating story about the beginnings of tango and how it grew and changed. The characters are believable and the drama is intense.. It was good to a point but then got very repetitive and Amazon Customer It just went on and on andom. It was good to a point but then got very repetitive and story seemed to stop moving forward