Portobello signs "hidden" tango tale
12.01.10 | Catherine Neilan
Portobello Books has made its first acquisition of the year, a "dazzling" book by poet and writer Kapka Kassabova.
Laura Barber acquired world English rights (excluding New Zealand) on proposal for Tango: Twelve Minutes of Love from Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann for publication in 2012.
The book is based on Kassabova's "decade-long love affair with the dance", using her personal stories from the dancehalls around the world, including Buenos Aires, Auckland and Berlin. Portobello said it would "open up the hidden world of tango, with its aficionados and desperados, its endless practice and its fleeting passions".
Kapka's memoir Street Without A Name was published by Portobello in 2008.
