Thirteen Tangos for Stravinsky Author:Alvaro Cardona-Hine Los Angeles of the 1940s is the setting for this vivid coming of age memoir. Cardona-Hine arrives with his family from Costa Rica just prior to World War II, more as a fascinated explorer of new landscapes and a language he will soon master than as an immigrant. Thirteen Tangos for Stravinsky is a vivid and intoxicating account of a childhood b... more »etween cultures, a formative glimpse of an important Hispanic composer, painter, and writer, and best of all, it is an invitation to dance.« less