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.
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"W. Fleischhauer wrote a Tetrology of cultural history. I have read three of them so far, and it is a history of events in our culture we never knew or prefered to forget. Packed into a suspenseful, exciting story. Intelligent and good reading." — Sabine (5 out of 5 stars)
"W. Fleischhauer wrote a Tetrology of cultural history. I have read three of them so far, and it is a history of events in our culture we never knew or prefered to forget. Packed into a suspenseful, exciting story. Intelligent and good reading."
“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
" A slow beginning, but what a tangled web and fantastic historical information. The mystery could not be resolved until the end. "
" slow starting.. but an ok book "
" Magnifico libro, lo consiglio a tutti, sopratutto agli appassionati del tango "
" I really enjoyed this one. As a Tango dancer it was fun to get into the head of the protagonist and she peels away layers of the dance from an outsider's perspective. The mystery was not completely mysterious, but... the ride was fun. "
" Excellent book, daring and controversial story line...I hope there will be a good English translation one day so more of the world can enjoy it "
" I enjoyed the historical, cultural and dance descriptions as well as the story. It was hard to put down. "
" Argentinien, Tango, Liebe, Krimi - geniale Mischung "
" I read this a couple years back, but my flatmate is currently reading (and loving) it. We talked about it today and I remember how much I was drawn into the story. Very suspenseful. Have to reread it sometime. "
" A mazing. The coolest plot twist I have read in a while. "
Wolfram Fleischhauer, born in 1961, grew up in Southern Germany. He studied languages and literature in Germany, France and Spain and did graduate studies in literary theory at UC-Irvine. After obtaining his MA with a thesis on Don DeLillo, he turned away from academia in favor of writing novels. Fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish, he trained as a conference interpreter and has been working for the European Commission since 1992. He lives in Berlin and Brussels, is married, and has two children.
Tanya Eby is a novelist and an audiobook narrator who has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards and been nominated for the Audie Award. She has a BA degree in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine.
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