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PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • An incandescent novel-political, mystical, timely, and heartening-about the power of memory, and the pursuit of justice, from the acclaimed author of Cantoras. "A joy to read. Playful and profound, unearthly yet deeply rooted, this sublime and gripping novel is above all about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing."-Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling a...

From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes an incandescent novel--political, mystical, timely, and heartening--about the power of memory, and the pursuit of justice.At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World,...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father's cherished violin to her name, seventeen-year-old Leda is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach is dead. Unable to return home, alone, and on the brink of destitution, she finds herself seduced by the tango, the dance that unde...

Cantoras es audaz y desacomplejada, un reto a la noción de normalidad y un tributo al poder del amor, la amistad, y la resistencia política. Es una fábula revolucionaria, ideal para este momento, escrita con sabiduría y amor". -Dina Nayeri, The New York Times Book Review En el Uruguay de 1977, el gobierno militar oprime a los disidentes con una fuerza brutal. En este ambiente opresivo donde los derechos personales están suspendidos, la homosex...

Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution-and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again-either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story." -Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning authorFrom the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, ...

Février 1913. Leda, 17 ans, quitte son petit village italien pour rejoindre son mari, Dante, à Buenos Aires. Arrivée là-bas, elle apprend que ce dernier est mort lors d'émeutes ouvrières. Leda décide malgré tout de rester en Argentine et de s'immerger dans ce monde nouveau. Déguisée en homme, elle parcourt les quartiers populaires à la découverte du tango et...

Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution-and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again-either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story." -Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning authorFrom the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, ...

1913. Die junge Leda verlässt ihre süditalienische Heimat, um in Argentinien ein besseres Leben zu finden. Was sie dort findet, ist eine melancholische, wunderschöne Musik: der Tango. »Eine kühne Protagonistin, eine atemraubende Sprache, ein Roman, fesselnd bis zur letzten Seite.« San Franciso Chronicle Buenos Aires, 1913. Als die siebzehnjährige Leda in Argentinien ankommt, sucht sie vergebens nach ihrem Ehemann Dante. Sie muss erfahren, d...

Radical Hope is a collection of letters-to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged-written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US president...

From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla, a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history. Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her naval officer father in a country still reeling from the abuses of a deposed military dictatorship. But when an uninvited visitor appears in Perla's home, t...

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Primo gennaio 1900. Il primo giorno del secolo non è mai come gli altri, men che meno a Tacuarembó, minuscolo villaggio del Sudamerica. La folla è radunata intorno all'albero più grande del paese e non crede ai propri occhi: la piccola Pajarita è tornata. Rifiutata dal padre, era scomparsa pochi mesi dopo la nascita e l'avevano data per morta. Eppure ora è lì, in cima, appollaiata sopra un ramo sottile. Ha un anno ormai e negli occhi grandi, n...

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Presents a coming-of-age story, that is based on a shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic house guest.

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Buenos Aires, 2001. Perla Correa è sempre riuscita a ingannare tutti quelli che la circondano. Ogni mattina si sveglia e lucida la sua superficie di studentessa modello, bella ragazza radiosa, irreprensibile figlia di buona famiglia. Sua madre è avvolta di bellezza e foulard importati e suo padre è un uomo forte e fiero nella sua uniforme militare perfettamente stirata. Perla è sempre stata considerata molto fortunata ad averli come genitori. ...

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Buenos Aires, 1913. Leda ha diciassette anni quando scende dal piroscafo dopo il suo lungo viaggio. La folla del porto la spinge da una parte all'altra del molo mentre lei, accanto al suo baule, attende che qualcuno venga a prenderla. Il baule custodisce qualche ricordo e un prezioso violino, l'ultimo dono di suo padre prima di farla partire dall'Italia. A Buenos Aires la aspetta Dante, l'uomo che ha sposato per procura. Leda attende fiduciosa...