Twelve Minutes of Love A Tango Story

In prose as elegant and seductive as the tango itself, Kapka Kassabova leads us on a journey over time and across continents, above all a journey of the heart. - Aminatta Forna This is more than a book about dancing. It is about people, places, movement, love, trouble, a journey. I was gripped... Read it and dance. - Monique Roffey This mix of travel writing, personal experience and history is something that Kassabova has done before and she's frankly brilliant at it. [This] is sharp, clever and engaging, a wonderful mix of self-deprecating humour and genuine insight. - "Independent o"n Sunday A mesmeric memoir of love, lust and tango ... Kassabova relishes the painful blisters as much as the seductive bliss. - M"arie Claire" Travel writing is dead. Long live great travel writing. Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a sexy step through the myths around tango and its physical, emotional and psychological layers. You will want to learn. - "GQ" Kapka Kassabova is consumed by her subject, and her book is all the better for it ... Warm, witty and deftly written, it's an unapologetically personal tale, but in it Kassabova reveals so much more about tango's allure and enigma than any more distanced study might. - **** "Time Out" [Kassabova] skilfully weaves her evolution as a dancer around the history and meaning of the dance as well as around her private dramas ... Her narrative, bubbly and brisk as it is, will entertain fellow dancers and fans of tango music and fellow wanderers pursuing similar ends. - "TLS" This is a strangely moving book, Kassabova's sensibility running throughout the pages like a melancholy tango melody. The author is intelligent, sensitive and romantic, and colours the content with her own elegiac perspective. Nothing is under- or over-stated... Kassabova is expert at interspersing history with her personal life, the movement like the intricate dance steps of the tango. One seems to reinforce and shed light on the other [a