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The gods of tango / Carolina De Robertis.
Van Pelt Library PS3604.E129 G63 2015
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction De Rob Gods
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Robertis, Caro, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violinists--Fiction.
- Violinists.
- Gender identity--Fiction.
- Gender identity.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 367 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
- Summary:
- "February 1913. 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. Upon her arrival in Buenos Aires, Leda is shocked to find that her bridegroom has been killed. Unable to fathom the idea of returning home, she remains in this unfamiliar city, living in a commune, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. She finally acts on a passion she has kept secret for years: mastering the violin"--Dust jacket flap.
- February 1913. 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. Arriving in Buenos Aires, Leda is finds that her bridegroom has been killed. Unable to fathom the idea of returning home, she remains in this unfamiliar city, living in a commune, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. She finally acts on a passion she has kept secret for years: mastering the violin. She disguises herself as a young man to join a troup, and forbidden longings she has kept surpressed are realized for the first time. -- adapted from back cover
- Contents:
- Think of Nothing, Think of Home
- A Corner of the Possible
- The Good People of New Babel
- Noise and Blades and Death and Also This
- Ladies and Gentlemen!
- A Cup of the River of Forgetting
- Heartbreak of Mountains, Lust of the Sun
- Bright Jagged Thing.
- Notes:
- This is a Borzoi book--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Stonewall Book Award - Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Winner, 2016
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781101874493
- 110187449X
- 9781101872857
- 1101872853
- OCLC:
- 886381099
- Publisher Number:
- 99963958831
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