num_pages: 312
description: From the highly acclaimed award-winning author of The Gods of Tango a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship find one another as lovers friends and ultimately family.In 1977 Uruguay a military government crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In this environment where the everyday rights of people are under attack homosexuality is a dangerous transgression to be punished. And yet Romina Flaca Anita La Venus Paz and Malena--five cantoras women who sing--somehow miraculously find one another. Together they discover an isolated nearly uninhabited cape Cabo Polonio which they claim as their secret sanctuary. Over the next thirty-five years their lives move back and forth between Cabo Polonio and Montevideo the city they call home as they return sometimes together sometimes in pairs with lovers in tow or alone. And throughout again and again the women will be tested--by their families lovers society and one another--as they fight to live authentic lives. A genre-defining novel and De Robertis's masterpiece Cantoras is a breathtaking portrait of queer love community forgotten history and the strength of the human spirit. At once timeless and groundbreaking Cantoras is a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn.
language: English
title: Cantoras
publisher: Knopf