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<b>Author:</b> Lewis  Shiner</br>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/212623323?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss">See in goodreads</a>
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<h3>Review:</h3>
<p>It gets Buenos Aires geography about 80% right, the characters don't sound mexican, and there's only two or three phrases with mismatched genders.<br /><br />This may appear to be faint praise, but trust me, it's head and shoulders above the average non-argentinian fiction in that respect, including (specially!) that written by other spanish-speaking writers.<br /><br />The story itself is sort of thin, and lays the mystic "tango is a dark dance" way too thick, but that was to be expected just from the title.<br /><br />I got this as a free PDF from Boing Boing, and it's not bad.</p>
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