![]() ![]() Leda, posing as Dante, catches the ear of a fairly successful band leader, who recruits her for his group. ![]() So she decides to don her dead husband’s clothes and take his name, finding a job at a cigarette factory and playing tangos on her heirloom violin at night. ![]() When she arrives and finds that Dante has been killed, Leda resolves to make her new life work but is disheartened when she realizes that prostitution is the only avenue open to unmarried women without means. The story opens as Leda leaves the small Italian village of Alazzano to make a new life in Buenos Aires with her cousin Dante, to whom she is promised in marriage. De Robertis’s beautifully written third novel (after Perla and The Invisible Mountain) follows the trajectory of Italian immigrant Leda Mazzoni, who lives as a man in order to support herself in Argentina circa 1913. ![]()
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