{"product_id":"hades-argentina-9780593188651","title":"Hades, Argentina","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eVCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD FINALIST \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLIST \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A debut novel as impressive as they come. Tough, wily, dreamlike.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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 fatal gap 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, \u003ci\u003eHades, Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping, ingeniously narrated literary debut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Loedel\u003c\/b\u003e is a book editor based in Brooklyn. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eHades, Argentina, \u003c\/i\u003e was inspired by his family history. It won the Prix du Premier Roman, was a finalist for the Prix Femina and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, LitHub, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452429111570,"sku":"9780593188651","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b8803fc-d268-47f3-a337-7ee60c82a6c1.jpg?v=1729811707","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hades-argentina-9780593188651","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}