The Tango Singer

Tomas Eloy Martinez's novel sends a New York student into the labyrinth of Buenos Aires in the troubled summer of 2001 to find a mythical, and yet real, tango singer whose rare and apparently random appearances may form a pattern worth unlocking. It is a wild ride of politics, history, music and film, magically told. This novel will send me scurrying to two others by Martinez, Santa Evita and The Peron Novel.