Title: El 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.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Relaciones hombre-mujer, Tango (Danza), Fiction, Historia, Ficción, Tango (Dance), History, Social life and customs, Male dancers, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Suspense, FICTION / Romance / Historical, Romance literature, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Fiction, romance, suspense, Fiction, romance, historical, Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romans, nouvelles, Tango, Histoire, Novela
Places: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Italy, Argentina, Nice (France), Sorrento (Italy), France
Time periods: 20th century