
At Half-Light
A Story of Tango and Memory
Linda Walsh(Author)
Kenton Road Press
Published on 28. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-7782877-2-5 (ISBN)
Description
From 1976 to 1983, during a brutal military regime in Argentina, thousands of people disappeared. In At Half-Light, Alejandra's parents have fled the dictatorship and settled in Peterborough, Canada. As a child, she discovers they have been keeping terrible secrets from her and suffers from nightmares. She is comforted by her grandfather's stories of his childhood as an orphan in a tenement house in Buenos Aires at the turn of the last century. The stories are filled with colourful characters - singers, thieves, and fortune tellers. He fills the house with tango music and teaches her to dance. When he begins to lose his memory, Alejandra writes his stories down so they won't be forgotten.
Alejandra goes to Buenos Aires to find a well-known tango singer who may be one of the women in the stories. There, she meets Las Madres, mothers still searching for their children who disappeared, keeping their stories alive. The trip to Argentina and her relationship with Silvio, an artist from Buenos Aires, are part of Alejandra's long journey to face the pain and loss in her family's past.
If our stories are told, we do not disappear.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7782877-2-5 (9781778287725)
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Linda Walsh, originally from London, England, grew up in Canada. She is a visual artist and dancer and was the tango instructor for the 2019 film, Into Invisible Light. She has won the Commonwealth Short Story Competition for Canada and Europe and has been shortlisted for the Guernica Prize, the Eden Mills Short Story Contest, and the Alice Munro Short Story Contest and longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. Her work has been read on CBC Radio. She is the author of two novels, At Half-Light and Interpreting Silence, and has been a reviewer for The Whistler Independent Book Awards and the Karen Gansel Short Story Competition. Her work has been published in dance and literary magazines. She currently lives in Toronto