Description
Fiction. Steve is an American in Berlin and a man in crisis. He has reached a stage in his expatriate existence where he feels only frustration—with his work, with his milieu, with his life. The sole thing he takes real joy in is tango dancing. It is while cultivating this passion one evening that he makes the acquaintance of Sonja, an enigmatic woman who is suffering a similar malaise. Steve plunges into an affair with her. But what begins as an erotic adventure turns into a frenzy of emotion that he never thought possible. Set against the backdrop of present-day Berlin, this novel is a story of desire and the quest for love within a traditional form—but in a time when Facebook, smartphones and Internet dating sites chaperone the mating dance.
"The search for both authentic and requited feeling beyond the realm of pure sex."—Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Author Bio
Kevin McAleer was born in Santa Monica, California, and now lives in Berlin as a writer and translator. Notable among his books are the novels SURFERBOY (PalmArtPress, 2018) and BERLIN TANGO ( PalmArtPress, 2020) as well as the epic poem ERROL FLYNN-AN EPIC LIFE (PalmArtPress, 2018), which the eminent film critic Rex Reed praised as "a daring adventure in biographical refurbishment," and the historical monograph Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany, which was chosen by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as one of its "Books of the Year."
Author City: BERLIN GER