![]() The conditions were uniformly terrible, with many people crowded into warrens of single rooms. ![]() Conventillos basically were tenements, some set up by the Argentine government, others privately run, to house the many thousands of immigrants pouring into Buenos Aires during the first years of the twentieth century. With only the clothes on her back and a single trunk containing her things, a little money, and the violin that her cherished father gave her after having been given it by his father, Leda moves into a conventillo, named La Rete, in the poor wharf-side neighborhood of La Boca. Once on shore, she learns that Dante has recently been killed in a street battle between syndicalists and the police. ![]() In 1913, 17-year-old Leda arrives by ship in Buenos Aires, from Italy, ostensibly to be greeted by her new husband Dante. De Robertis's new novel is The Gods of Tango, published by Knopf. ![]()
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