Fatal Tango, Wolfram Fleischhauer
Fatal Tango, Wolfram Fleischhauer
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Fatal Tango

Author: Wolfram Fleischhauer

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 12 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/20/2012

Synopsis

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.

About Wolfram Fleischhauer

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sylvia on September 13, 2018

4.25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book stays stuck in my mind. I keep thinking and thinking and thinking about it. The atmosphere was fantastic in this book and I would recommend everyone to listen to the song mentioned (Eugenia Léon – Preludio para el año 3001) while reading the second half. I don’t speak Spanish, but......more

Goodreads review by Kim on September 14, 2008

My favorite book. I was recommended this book in 2003 and though I bought it I never got past the prelouge which is written in form of a police protocoll and simply didn't capture me. After moving this was the only book I had not packed up so I started to read again... And after the first chapter cou......more

Goodreads review by Arja on July 11, 2021

De Ahfang isch ganz ok, aber ab de Hälfti wirds uu spannend. Gschicht isch mega komplex und mit de Ziit chasch alles zemmereime. De schluss haut eim um......more

Goodreads review by Buecherschnack on January 10, 2021

3,5 🌟. Die ersten 100 Seiten haben mir gar nicht gefallen. Dann wurde es richtig spannend und es hat mich veranlasst mehr über die historischen Hintergründe zu lesen. Zwischendrin hatte es mich dann aber wieder verloren. Ich mochte die Metaphorik mit dem Tanzen sehr gerne.......more

Goodreads review by Heather on October 05, 2015

How little I knew about German ballerinas, Tango and Argentine history. Sure it's fiction... but, I love stories that wrap historical references in with a decent story. I find it to be an awesome way to learn about other cultures and stay engaged in ways I wouldn't otherwise. This book was originall......more

Quotes

“Fatal Tango is a fast-paced, nail-biting detective novel, a political thriller, and a love story. Beneath 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

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