Tango of the old guard
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Tango of the old guard
14.99 €
Tango and chess, international espionage, fraud and theft, dark alleys, dark sides of the soul and love - doomed and for life. Two people from different worlds - in the past a soldier, and now gigolo, spy willy-nilly and dexterous thief penniless Max Costa and accustomed to luxury impenetrable socialite Mercedes Insunsa - play worthy of Hitchcock tense drama of fatal love and betrayal. The two have three brief encounters: in the 1920s, in the refined interiors of a transatlantic liner and in the slums of Buenos Aires; in the 1930s in Nice, when the shadow of all that was to come was already looming over Europe; and in Sorrento, during a furious battle between Chilean and Soviet grandmasters for the chess crown, in the 1960s, when life has already passed and one can only look enviously at the young, bright-eyed and persistent, supporting them wherever possible. This is a story about the ardor of tango and the cold calculation of chess - but not only. It's a story of great love - but it's not all about love. Arturo Perez-Reverte - former military journalist, celebrated author of brilliant historical, military, adventure novels, translated into forty languages, the creator of the cycle about Captain Diego Alatrista, the winner of the most prestigious literary awards. His "Tango of the Old Guard" - a black-and-white movie about the true passion of the tango, which sounds in you until the end of your days, about nostalgia for bygone times, when life was full of adventure, unpredictable and with everything that came into your hands, you parted easily, because you were young and not afraid of anything, and about old age, which is full of regrets, but nothing that can change neither a burnt out crook, nor a real knight.
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