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Book by Martinez, Tomas Eloy
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Tomas Eloy Martinez was born in Argentina in 1934. During the military dictatorship, he lived in exile in Venezuela where he wrote his first three books, all of which were republished in Argentina in 1983, in the first months of democracy. He is currently a professor and director of the Latin American Program at Rutgers University. He was shortlisted for the 2005 International Man Booker Prize.
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*Starred Review* The Argentine author of The Peron Novel (1988) and its sequel, Santa Evita (1996), presents another history- and culture-drenched novel about another famous Argentine figure--writer Jorge Luis Borges--and one of the most signature features of Argentine society, the tango. This complicated novel's conceit is that a young American man by the name of Bruno Cadogan is writing a Ph.D. dissertation on Borges' essays on the tango and goes to reside for a while in Buenos Aires to find occasions to listen to master tango singer Julio Martel, who sings tango songs of a much earlier era, never records his voice, and whose appearances are sporadic and spring up in odd places around the city, his prematurely -broken-down body making a strange host to such a mesmerizing vocal instrument. As Borges' writing was keyed to places and events around the Buenos Aires he knew so well despite his blindness, Cadogan seeks to find a pattern to Martel's unannounced appearances that will also provide a key to understanding the city's dramatic past. This discursive, digressive novel, at once oblique and tantalizing, crammed as if it were a scrapbook with anecdotes about Argentine's past and present, is, in the end, a magical impression of the chimera that is Buenos Aires. Brad Hooper
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0747576440
- ISBN 13 9780747576440
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Restless in Manhattan, student Bruno Cadogan heads to the city of his dreams, Buenos Aires, where the inflation crisis of 2001 is beginning to spiral out of control. He is on the trail of Julio Martel, a legendary but elusive singer, who he hopes will inspire and enlighten his writings on the tango. But the moment he meets El Tucumano at the airport, not only does his new friend find him a cheap room in an expensive city, but a place in the very building where Borges set his celebrated story 'The Adelp'. With El Tucumano's unpredicable help, Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. And as he untangles the story of the singer's life, Bruno begins to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances map a dark labyrinth of the city's past. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002073137
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