Fatal Tango by Wolfram Fleischhauer
Giulietta Battin has devoted herself to ballet, earning a coveted spot as a dancer with the Staatsoper Berlin. But when she decides to explore a new style of music—the tango—life as she knows it changes forever. Soon after beginning her musical adventure, she meets Argentinean tango dancer Damián Alsina. They begin a torrid affair…which quickly turns into a nightmare. Damián suddenly sabotages his own performance with a bizarre, improvised choreography. His passionate creativity excites Giulietta, until Damián’s strange behavior culminates in a shocking act: he kidnaps and tortures her jealous father. Horrified, she demands answers, but Damián has fled to Buenos Aires and her father, his victim, is being suspiciously unforthcoming. So Giulietta follows her lover to South America, where her journey into the world of tango confronts her with the unspeakable horrors of the country’s brutal past. But denial will never silence art, and as Giulietta learns to decipher the true significance of Damián’s dance style, she finds the key to the mystery of her lover´s past and the terrifying truth that connects it with her own.
“Fatal Tango is a fast-paced, nail-biting detective novel, a political thriller, and a love storyBeneath the surface, though, it is an extraordinarily profound meditation on the nature of dance—what it is, what it means, what it can do. Contemplate it long and hard enough, and you will understand more about the world you live in; examine it even harder, and it might change your life. —Jonathan Still, The Dance Gazette
Wolfram Fleischhauer was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1961 and developed a passion for foreign cultures at an early age. He spent a year abroad at an American high school before going on to study comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of California-Irvine. He has lived in Spain, France, Italy, and Belgium and traveled on four continents. His eight novels, which combine expert American storytelling with the thematic richness of the wider European tradition, have sold more than half a million copies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781611091472 |
| ISBN 10 | 1611091470 |
| Title | Fatal Tango |
| Author | Wolfram Fleischhauer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amazon Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 458 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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