What we become
Subtitle: a novel
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza García
Contributors: Caistor, Nick, translator; Garcia, Lorenza, translator
Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781476751986
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Social life and customs; Male dancers; Fiction
Work titles: Tango de la guardia vieja
Description: En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and continues as the seedy decadence of Buenos Aires envelops the secret lovers. Nice, 1937. Still drawn to one another a decade later, Max and Mecha rekindle their dalliance. In the wake of a perilous mission gone awry, Mecha looks after her charming paramour until a deadly encounter with a Spanish spy forces him to flee. Sorento, 1966. Max once again runs into trouble--and Mecha. She offers him temporary shelter from the KGB agents on his trail, but their undeniable attraction offers only a small glimmer of hope that their paths will ever cross again. Arturo Pérez-Reverte is at his finest here, offering readers a bittersweet, richly rendered portrait of a powerful, forbidden love story that burns brightly over forty years, from the fervor of youth to the dawn of old age.
Notes: Translation from Spanish of: Tango de la guardia vieja.

"Originally published in Spain in 2012 by Santillana Ediciones Generales, S. L. as El tango de la Guardia Vieja" -- Title page verso.