The Tango Singer

Zusatztext 'This is nothing like the Buenos Aires that he has read about ... A vivid! fascinating! dreamlike novel' Informationen zum Autor Tomás Eloy Martínez was born in Argentina in 1934. During the military dictatorship, he lived in exile in Venezuela where he wrote his first three books, all of which were republished in Argentina in 1983, in the first months of democracy. He was until his death in January 2010 a professor and director of the Latin American Program at Rutgers University. He was shortlisted for the 2005 International Man Booker Prize. Klappentext Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel, he begins to untangle the story of the singer's life, and to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances map a dark labyrinth of the city's past. Zusammenfassung An extraordinary novel that will propel the International Man Booker Prize-nominated Tomas Eloy Martinez to wide recognition and major sales

Product details

• Authors: Tomás Eloy Martínez, Tomas E Martinez, Tomas Eloy Martinez, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Martinez Tomas Eloy
• Assisted by: Anne Mclean (Translation), McLean Anne (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.01.2007
• EAN: 9780747585787
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-8578-7
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary