Heartbreak Tango

In a small Argentinian town in the 1940s, the death of a handsome young man named Juan Carlos Etchepare sends ripples through the lives of the women who once loved him. Through a collection of personal letters, diaries, official reports, and whispered conversations, a web of secrets, passions, and betrayals begins to unravel. The story reconstructs a past of provincial dreams and stifled desires, moving between Nené, the humble girl truly in love; Mabel, the beautiful and unfaithful socialite; and a cast of characters each trapped by the rigid moral codes of their time.

Presented as a serial melodrama, this novel abandons a traditional narrator, instead allowing the characters' own voices and the ephemera of their lives to tell the story. The result is an intimate and unsparing portrait of human relationships, where the glamour of the cinema and the drama of radio soap operas clash with the mundane reality of everyday frustrations. It is a story that exposes the quiet desperation and hidden longings that lie beneath the surface of polite society, exploring how love and memory are shaped by illusion.