VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD FINALISTCENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTA debut
novel as impressive as they come. Tough wily dreamlike. Seattle TimesA decade after fleeing
for his life a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love.In 1976 Tomás Orilla is a
medical student in Buenos Aires where he has moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel a
childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has long drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper
into the ranks of the insurgency fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. Tomás has always
been willing to follow her anywhere to do anything to prove himself. Yet what exactly is he
proving and at what cost to them both?It will be years before a summons back arrives for Tomás
now living as Thomas Shore in New York. It isn t a homecoming that awaits him however so much
as an odyssey into the past an encounter with the ghosts that lurk there and a reckoning with
the fatalgap between who he has become and who he once aspired to be. Raising profound
questions about the sometimes impossible choices we make in the name of love Hades Argentina
is a gripping ingeniously narrated literary debut.