El Tango de la Guardia Vieja (What We Become: A Novel) (Paperback)

from eyes.2c

Gripping! Complex! In the first three pages or so I was a tad confused. I felt detached, disoriented even. As I should! I was crossing the Atlantic bound from Lisbon to Buenos Aires--ar least the characters I was about to become totally engaged with were. As I read on I became absolutely fascinat...

from Nuigurumi

Tango? Schach? Spionage? Das sind so ziemlich die langweiligsten Themen, die ich kenne. Schade nur, dass es die Hauptthemen des Romans "Dreimal im Leben" sind ... und ich habe jede Zeile genossen! 1928 begegnen sich Max Costa und Mecha Inzunza zum ersten Mal auf einem Schiff nach Buenos Aires, au...

from froxgirl

From the author who is "incapable of writing a bad novel" comes a novel that begins with a seaboard tango and ends in a third encounter some forty years later, when the protagonists are no longer young but still capable of taking great risks. Max is a professional dancer, card sharp, thief, and g...

from ivydtruitt

WHAT WE BECOME flits through time following Max and Mecha through forty years from their first meeting aboard a cruise ship to Buenos Aires in 1928 to Sorrento in 1966. Perez-Reverte is one of my favorite writers and an auto buy. His characters are always rich, revealing themselves over the cours...

from Lisianthus

Definitely not one Perez-Reverte's best. While there are interesting chapters on the origins of tango, on the seedy parts of Buenos Aires in the 20's and 30's, there is so much repetition, it drags down the tempo of the book. And, something surprising is the insistence on sartorial descriptions! ...