Heartbreak Tango
Book description
Finally available again after many years, one of the most compelling novels from Argentina's great novelists.
Why read it?
1 author picked Heartbreak Tango as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Manuel Puig (1932–1990) was an Argentine novelist best known for writing The Kiss of the Spider Woman, made into a great movie with William Hurt and Raul Julia. This book, my first recommendation, is about a tangled love affair.
Puig tells the story by collaging together letters the characters write to each other, items in advice for the lovelorn columns, obituaries he invented, and a whole host of other texts. The reader has to put all the clues together like a detective solving a mystery. The book is beautifully translated into English by Suzanne Jill Levine.
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