Ebook {Epub PDF} The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis

A writer of Uruguayan origins, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels The President and the Frog; Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award, and a New York Times Editors' Choice; The Gods of Tango, winner of a Stonewall Book Award; Perla; and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain, . De Robertis’s beautifully written third novel (after Perla and The Invisible Mountain) follows the trajectory of Italian immigrant Leda Mazzoni, who lives as a man in order to support herself in. Author: Carolina De Robertis Publisher: Vintage ISBN: Size: MB Format: PDF, Docs Category: Fiction Languages: en Pages: View: Get Book. February seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father’s cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across the world in Argentina.

"The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning. "Gilles Marini Carolina De Robertis, an Uruguayan author, pens a heart-touching and extremely poignant historical fiction in her new book, The Gods of Tango that unfolds the story of a young Italian woman who after finding out that her newly wed. Carolina De Robertis' novel Gods of Tango features a year-old widow, recently arrived from Italy with little besides a violin. It's Argentina, — and a magical new music fills the barrios. A fallen woman-risen-man.". The Gods of Tango. By Carolina De Robertis. Knopf. Hardcover, , pp. July About: Sandra Lambert. Sandra Gail Lambert is the author of the memoir A Certain Loneliness and a novel, The River's Memory. She is a NEA Creative Writing Fellow.

CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS is the author of five novels, including Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; it was. The Gods of Tango is set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from to Seventeen-year-old Leda leaves Italy to travel to Buenos Aires in Argentina in to be with her new husband Dante Mateo. On her arrival, he is dead. She knows no-one and she has no money; she only has her grandfather’s violin. The Gods of Tango. Reviews. International Editions. STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER. From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Invisible Mountain and Perla—a lyrical, riveting story of a young woman whose passion for the early sounds of tango becomes a force of profound and unexpected change. February seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father’s cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina.