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Dark Tangos
by
Lewis Shiner
After the breakup of his marriage and his forced relocation to Buenos Aires, Rob Cavanaugh’s life was going downhill fast. Until he met Elena.
She was smart and beautiful and danced like a dread. But she had a history that she said he could never understand, a history that went back to the Dirty War of the 1970s, when government death squads brought a new word to the word:...more
She was smart and beautiful and danced like a dread. But she had a history that she said he could never understand, a history that went back to the Dirty War of the 1970s, when government death squads brought a new word to the word:...more
Hardcover, 213 pages
Published
August 31st 2011
by Subterranean Press
(first published August 28th 2011)
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Lewis Shiner clearly isn't the most well known of writers. He publishes through Subterranean Press, rather than Harper Collins or Doubleday, and I'm not entirely sure he doesn't have a day job.
I can perhaps see why... he does often cover a lot of ground in his novels. This one (more reminiscent of his 'Deserted Cities of the Heart' for me, than anything) is a love story/thriller heavily featuring Tango/Modern Argentinian History/Torture. Black and White took on Inter-Racial Romance/Voodoo/Modern...more
I can perhaps see why... he does often cover a lot of ground in his novels. This one (more reminiscent of his 'Deserted Cities of the Heart' for me, than anything) is a love story/thriller heavily featuring Tango/Modern Argentinian History/Torture. Black and White took on Inter-Racial Romance/Voodoo/Modern...more
When I started the book, not knowing anything about the author, I expected something in the genre of "American who thinks he's so cool at home in an exotic culture." That is not what this is about. A great novel, full of suspense, emotion, romance, and pain. I must say that I while I did not find the May-November couple believable (who ever does?) the writer deserves an a for effort. And the girl needs to be young for the chronology of the plot to work. I plan to get hold of Shiner's other books...more
This takes a reasonably honest look at the political repression in Argentina and its modern day consequences. In terms of genre, this is a political thriller with an innocent man who gets caught up in a situation which leads to revelations about abuse of power and corruption. It contains some fairly graphic descriptions of torture so you should not read this unless you are comfortable with this kind of content. I liked it although, by by standards, it was a bit wordy.
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Lewis Shiner's latest is a graphic thriller about the Argentine disappeared and their legacy. It includes a torture scene that is necessary but not for the faint of heart. Despite the political thriller content it is also a love story, and a homage to Argentine tango. Each of Shiner's books is better than the last, and this one deserves wide circulation. It clarifies a story Americans need to know more about. At the same time Shiner's use of language sparkles as usual and his characters stand ou...more
It gets Buenos Aires geography about 80% right, the characters don't sound mexican, and there's only two or three phrases with mismatched genders.
This may appear to be faint praise, but trust me, it's head and shoulders above the average non-argentinian fiction in that respect, including (specially!) that written by other spanish-speaking writers.
The story itself is sort of thin, and lays the mystic "tango is a dark dance" way too thick, but that was to be expected just from the title.
I got this...more
This may appear to be faint praise, but trust me, it's head and shoulders above the average non-argentinian fiction in that respect, including (specially!) that written by other spanish-speaking writers.
The story itself is sort of thin, and lays the mystic "tango is a dark dance" way too thick, but that was to be expected just from the title.
I got this...more
I recognized many of the places in BA & remember the tango bar scene, so I was interested. First part moves slowly, but then gains momentum. Torture scenes very realistic.
A moving story, about a couple who meet in Buenos Aires and how their relationship is affected by the cruel regime in Argentina
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