Hades, Argentina

Hades, Argentina
Daniel Loedel
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 304pg
8 Apr 2021 UK
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9780349994086
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A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. It was the most obvious thing in the world that I' dfollow her wherever she went. I always had. In 1976, Tomas Oriilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he' s moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has always drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of young insurgents fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. As its thuggish milicos begin to disappear more and more people like her, she presents Tomas with a way to prove himself. As always, he' ll do anything for Isabel. But what exactly is he proving, and at what cost to them both? It will be years before a summons back arrives for Tomas, now living as Thomas Shore in New York. But it isn' t a homecoming that awaits him 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' s 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, brilliantly narrated literary debut.
Praise for Hades, Argentina: "A gorgeously told tale of really tough subjects -- terror, betrayal, love, and more. " --Alma"A complex and intimate meditation on love, guilt, and the decisions that haunt us forever. " --Kirkus Reviews (starred) "[A] haunting story about repression and the vulnerability of youth. . . . A devastating reminder of the tragic costs of politics made personal. " --Booklist (starred) "Mesmerizing. . . . Loedel' s unflinching look at human frailty adds a revelatory new chapter to South American Cold War literature. " --Publishers Weekly "An astonishingly powerful novel about the complex nature of guilt. It sets the personal against the political with real emotional accuracy and sharp narrative skill. " --Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn and Nora Webster "A remarkable novel, as imaginatively bold as it is morally complex. It will stay with me for a very long time. " --Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire "Deception, violence, a society on the brink, Hades, Argentina haunted me long after I turned the final page. Loedel is a writer of enormous talent. " --Elliot Ackerman, author of Red Dress in Black and White"Hades, Argentina brilliantly explores the fault lines between heroism and complicity, guilt and trauma, and love and betrayal. Daniel Loedel has written a haunting and beautiful novel. " --Phil Klay, author of Redeployment "A stunning descent into the haze of memory and history. In his interrogation of complicity and violence, Loedel explores how institutionalized evil disappears humans not only from the physical world, but from their own souls as well. " --Francisco Cantu, author ofThe Line Becomes A River "Strange, gorgeous, and terrifying--a book for the grievers, and for those of us who wish we could turn back time to remedy past mistakes--and so, for all of us. " --R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries"A remarkable novel, personal and political, elegiac and intimate, with a tenderness and wisdom evident in every passage. A beautiful book. " --Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names "Loedel writes in the venerable Argentinian tradition of mixing the political and the supernatural, but his novel comes from a different language and a new sensibility. It took me to places I had never visited before. " --Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling
Daniel Loedel is a book editor based in Brooklyn. Hades, Argentina, his first novel, was inspired by his family history.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780349994086
Published: 8 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Blackfriars
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 304

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