A powerfully sensual, erotically charged story of music and romance, set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires.

February 1913: When seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching only a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, arrives in Buenos Aires, she is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach has been killed.

Unable to return home, alone, and on the brink of destitution, she is seduced by the tango, the dance that underscores life in her new city. Leda knows, however, that she can never play in public as a woman, so she disguises herself as a young man to join a troupe of musicians. In the illicit, scandalous world of brothels and cabarets, the lines between Leda and her disguise begin to blur, and romantic longings that she has long kept suppressed are realized for the first time.

Format: Paperback
Page Count: 384 pages
Imprint: Knopf US
Published: June 2016
ISBN: 9781101872857