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What we become : a novel / Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza García.
Van Pelt Library PQ6666.E765 T3613 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pérez-Reverte, Arturo, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Tango de la guardia vieja. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Male dancers--Fiction.
- Male dancers.
- Manners and customs.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Argentina--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Argentina.
- Nice (France)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Nice (France).
- France--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- France.
- Sorrento (Italy)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Sorrento (Italy).
- Italy--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Romantic suspense fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Romance fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 453 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and continues as the seedy decadence of Buenos Aires envelops the secret lovers. Nice, 1937. Still drawn to one another a decade later, Max and Mecha rekindle their dalliance. In the wake of a perilous mission gone awry, Mecha looks after her charming paramour until a deadly encounter with a Spanish spy forces him to flee. Sorento, 1966. Max once again runs into trouble--and Mecha. She offers him temporary shelter from the KGB agents on his trail, but their undeniable attraction offers only a small glimmer of hope that their paths will ever cross again. Arturo Pérez-Reverte is at his finest here, offering readers a bittersweet, richly rendered portrait of a powerful, forbidden love story that burns brightly over forty years, from the fervor of youth to the dawn of old age.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Spain in 2012 by Santillana Ediciones Generales, S. L. as El tango de la Guardia Vieja" -- Verso title page.
- ISBN:
- 9781476751986
- 1476751986
- OCLC:
- 929863147
- Publisher Number:
- 99968238527
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