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The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-06-08 17:31:00 The Latin American literary boom, the powerful emergence of Spanish-language Latin American writers that has had no parallel since the florescence of the Russians in the 19th century, is alive and well and living - in New Jersey. New Brunswick, N.J., the home of Rutgers University, where Argentine author Tomás Eloy Martínez hangs his hat as director of Latin American studies, is the latest ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-06-08 17:31:00 The Latin American literary boom, the powerful emergence of Spanish-language Latin American writers that has had no parallel since the florescence of the Russians in the 19th century, is alive and well and living - in New Jersey. New Brunswick, N.J., the home of Rutgers University, where Argentine author Tomás Eloy Martínez hangs his hat as director of Latin American studies, is the latest ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-05-29 10:59:00 In "The Tango Singer," as in his two previous novels, "Santa Evita" and "The Perón Novel," Martínez's locale is Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, that most surreal of cities, and the map on which he arranges his phantasmagoric players. Martínez, who has lived in the United States since 1982 and in Venezuela before that, in exile from what he calls the "atrocious dictatorship" in his native ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

With Borges by Alberto Manguel 2006-05-29 09:38:00 An excerpt of Alberto Manguel's "With Borges" can be found here. ...

The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-05-23 06:03:00 In his new novel, "The Tango Singer," Tomás Eloy Martínez ("The Péron Novel"), who was short-listed for the International Man Booker Prize, explores themes not unlike those found in tango music. Bruno Cadogan, a New York academic, is writing a dissertation on the origins of tango. He hears of an extraordinary tango singer in Buenos Aires named Julio Martel, who is believed to be even more ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-05-17 18:49:00 "The Tango Singer" is not for everyone. It's not entertainment in the accepted sense. It is, rather, a perplexing intellectual puzzle that demands a considerable backlog of knowledge and a mind that's willing to work overtime. It also helps to have a burning and respectful love of Buenos Aires -- its geography, population and history. The author, Tomás Eloy Martínez, was born in Argentina but ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-04-01 16:41:00 ON a dawn as beautiful as any since the world began, a young man watches the sun rise from the balcony of his Buenos Aires hotel. "There [had] never existed a city as beautiful as Buenos Aires at that moment," he reflects. Exalted by the glory of the moment, he goes to write a letter full of joy to a friend; instead he writes another letter, an act of unredeemable baseness. The young man's name ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt 2006-03-12 18:02:00 The Seven Madmen is set in Buenos Aires in the then-present-time of 1929 and opens with main character, Remo Erdosain, a self-described "hollow man, a shell moved simply by the force of habit" being accused of embezzling by his employer. That accusation sets loose a chain of events in his life, which ultimately lead him to a gathering of other discontents that make ruthless, detailed plans to set ...

Santiago Roncagliolo wins Alfaguara Spanish-language literary prize 2006-03-01 16:06:00 MADRID, Spain (AP) - Peruvian author Santiago Roncagliolo won Spain's Alfaguara Spanish-language literary prize on Monday for his novel Abril rojo, or Red April, which tells of life in his country under the government of former president Alberto Fujimori. The novel, a detective story set within a political background, unfolds in the Peru of the early 2000s when the government, led by ...

Tomas Eloy Martinez' The Queen's Flight published in Romania 2006-02-22 06:34:00 Carturesti Books will host tomorrow the launch of a book by Argentinean writer Tomas Eloy Martinez. "The Queen's Flight" is a novel about desire and power, the story of which takes place on the background of a political reality dominated by corruption and describes the love story between the manager of a newspaper in Buenos Aires and his protegee, a young and talented journalist. According to ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-02-12 17:39:00 A brief review of Tomas Eloy Martinez' The Tango Singer. Tomas Eloy Martinez originally set out to write a book about Buenos Aires for Bloomsbury's "Writer in the City" series before his novelist's instincts took over. This explains why the Argentine capital is the real protagonist of The Tango Singer. "I was surprised that Buenos Aires was so majestic from the second or third storey upwards and ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-02-11 17:49:00 Madonna performed it in Evita. Sally Potter directed it in The Tango Lesson. Hundreds, mainly women of uncertain age, dance it across British cities. And the Argentines, who claim to have choreographed it - although the roots lie in the male partnerships of Cuban sailors improvising on the rhythms of the habañera - have written about it. Even Borges's brief "History of the Tango" opens by paying ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

The Insatiable Spider Man by Pedro Juan Gutierrez 2006-02-07 05:15:00 A review of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez' The Insatiable Spider Man Tales of Havana, from a native son. The unnamed narrator, much like the semi-autobiographical Pedro Juan of Gutiérrez`s two previous books (Dirty Havana Trilogy and Tropical Animal, 2005, etc.), opens this collection with a dispassionate re-telling of former girlfriend Silvia`s rape and its consequences. He and Silvia break up; he then ...

The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez 2006-01-29 17:51:00 A review Tomás Eloy Martínez' The Tango Singer Tomás Eloy Martínez, who was shortlisted for last year's inaugural International Man Booker Prize, was born in Argentina in 1934. His writing is satisfyingly sharp and eccentric. He casts Eva Perón as one of those women "whose lives were so excessive that, like the inconvenient facts of history, they were left without a real place of their own. Only ... Tomas Eloy Martinez

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende 2006-01-16 16:24:00 A review of Isabel Allende's Portrait in Sepia. It was the infamous coup in 1973 that first concentrated Allende's mind on politics and turned her into a storyteller of such stature. Since then, her novels have dogged the footsteps of her long journey from Chile to her adopted home, California. Apart from a slow change of scene, other influences have faded or matured - the magical realism is ...