At Half-Light: A Story of Tango and Memory - Softcover

Walsh, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1778287727 ISBN 13: 9781778287725

Publisher: Kenton Road Press, 2022

Synopsis

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, Alejandra discovers that they have been keeping terrible secrets from her and she suffers from nightmares. She is comforted by her grandfather’s stories of his life as an orphan in a tenement house in Buenos Aires at the turn of the last century. His stories are filled with colourful characters – tango singers, fortune tellers, dancers, and thieves. He fills the house with tango music and teaches her to dance. A 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.

About the author
Linda Walsh, originally from London, England, grew up in Canada. She is a visual artist and tango instructor and has made several trips to Buenos Aires to study tango music and dance. She has won the Commonwealth Short Story Competition for Canada and Europe and the Eden Mills Fringe Literary Contest. She has been shortlisted for the Guernica Prize and the Alice Munro Short Story Competition and longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. At Half-Light is her first novel. She lives in Toronto.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Kenton Road Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1778287727
• ISBN 13: 9781778287725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256