“You think you’re reading one novel but, then, suddenly you realize you’re reading another. “Like the dance from which it takes its title, The Gods of Tango is confident, sensual, wildly romantic.” - The Columbus Dispatch De Robertis’s writing harnesses that physicality and sexual energy.” - The Wall Street Journal “ a sound charged with the attitude and yearnings of Argentina’s immigrant class, its raw passions and unleashed frustrations. keep us rapt, turning the pages.” - The Washington Post The book’s relentlessly propulsive story of gender-switching in a perilous time. Passages hum in step with the tempos of the tango, seducing the reader to continue turning the pages.” - Los Angeles Review of Books Woven of many strands, the novel is absorbing, tightly crafted. A rousing tale of sex, violence, exhilaration, poverty, luck and redemption.” - San Francisco Chronicle A San Francisco Chronicle and NBC News Latino Best Book of the Year
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