In Carolina De Robertis’ third historical novel set in South America, the author is as ambitious and audacious as her beguiling protagonist. “The Gods of Tango” takes us from Italy to Argentina and ...

You think you’re reading one novel but, then, suddenly you realize you’re reading another. This is the dazzling transformation that slowly comes upon you reading Carolina De Robertis’s rapturous novel ...

Carolina De Robertis likes to say she was an immigrant even before she was born. She describes herself as Uruguayan, although she never lived in Uruguay as a child: Her parents left South America ...

In the dirty, crowded, and impoverished immigrant barrios of Buenos Aires of 1913, a 17-year-old girl arrives with little more than some clothes and her grandfather's violin. Her name is Leda, and she ...

Argentine tango is the most sensuous of all couple dances. Fused in an embrace, the partners flex and glide, challenging, tantalizing, hooking an ankle behind a partner’s knee, slipping a leg between ...