Irrawaddy Tango: A Novel

by Wendy Law-Yone

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Irrawaddy Tango, a pepper-tongued, tango-dancing Asian beauty, rises from a village girlhood to become the wife of her country's dictator and then a leader of the rebel forces arrayed against him. Tango captures the attention of an ambitious colonel - the self-proclaimed Supremo - while dancing at a talent contest. Once married, she is forced to endure the cruelties of a ruthless and foolish husband, is kidnapped by rebel forces, recaptured and brutally punished by her husband's military clique and eventually exiled to America. Her return to the fictional Republic of Daya (clearly Burma) brings about the destruction of...Read more
  • ISBN10 0679421920
  • ISBN13 9780679421924
  • Publish Date 18 January 1994
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 290
  • Language English