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Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina
 
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Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina (Hardcover)

by Brian Winter (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S. (9 Dec 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1586483706
  • ISBN-13: 978-1586483708
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 930,152 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #31 in  Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Performing Arts > Dance > Tango
    #100 in  Books > History > Countries & Regions > South America > Argentina

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"Entertaining, charming, insightful and outrageous ... "Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien" is a book you will not be able to put down. It is a deft blend of history, memoir and unabashed love for a country and the dance that epitomizes it. Winter's narrative is intoxicating and nothing less than a look into the very soul of Argentina."--"Tucson Citizen," April 17, 2008

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After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of Buenos Aires, the country around them collapses, gripped by inflation, street riots, and revolution. In a book that is part travelogue and part history, the author evokes his immersion in a dark underworld. He visits old dance salons, brothels, and shacks on the dusty Pampa, searching for the tangos shady origins in the hope that understanding may help him dance better. Along the way, he discovers that the tango, with its tales of jealousy, melodrama, and lost glory, may hold the secret to the country that is inexplicably disintegrating before his eyes.

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3.0 out of 5 stars I WANTED TO LOVE THIS BOOK...I REALLY DID...BUT..., 2 April 2008
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As a Latina who was married to an Argentinean for many years and spent some time in Argentina in both the capital, Buenos Aires, and city of Mendoza in the wine country, I looked forward to reading this book. On the plus side, some of it is wryly humorous, and the author's chronicle of the history of the tango in Argentina is somewhat interesting. The author also captures some of the flavor of Argentina and gives a very decent account of its unstable political history.

Some of the characters described in the book, old tango instructors with whom the author hung out during his stay in Argentina, are colorful, and the author gives the reader a taste of the passion that the tango arouses and of its place in the culture of Argentina. I also felt that these very same characters that the author professed were his friends were probably secretly laughing at the author, a lumbering Texan who wanted to learn about the tango, and would say just about anything to him just for effect, whether or not it was true.

Moreover, some of the author's conclusions are those that only a Yanqui would devise, as I did not feel that they derived from a real understanding of Argentina or its people, given his limited scope of reference. Also, a few of the translations in the book were off the mark, which I found to be annoying. I also found the quality of the writing to be rather pedestrian, overall. Still, there is a modicum of enjoyment to be gotten from this book by those interested in other cultures or in the tango.
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