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In one of the key lights of modern-day Latin American literature - a lush, lyrical, deeply moving story of a woman whose passion for the early does sound of tango becomes a push of profound and unforeseen change. Feb 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, taking only a tiny trunk and her father's cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new spouse, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she remains: surviving in a tenement, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. Still, she is seduced by the music that underscores life in the town: tango, given birth to from lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous boogie of brothels and cabarets. Leda eventually acts over a long-held desire to understand the violin, realizing that she can't ever play in public areas as a woman. She slashes off her locks, binds her chest, and becomes "Dante," a man who joins a troupe of tango music artists bent on conquering the salons of high culture. Now, slowly but surely, the lines between Leda and Dante commence to blur, and feelings that she has long retained suppressed reveal themselves, jeopardizing not only her musical profession, but her life. Richly evocative of place and time, its prose suffused with the rhythms of the tango, its narrative at once resonant and gripping, this is De Robertis's most achieved novel yet.
