HADES, ARGENTINA

A haunting historical novel which weaves betrayal and sacrifice amid echoes of the Orpheus myth and swirls of magic. It brilliantly explores the fault lines between heroism and complicity, guilt and trauma, love and betrayal and is a book for the grievers and those wishing to remedy past mistakes. A 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 the 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 prove himself, yet what exactly is he proving, and at what cost to both of them? It will be years before a summons back arrives, and now he is living as Thomas Shore in New York. It isn't a homecoming that awaits him so much as an odyssey into the past where ghosts lurk there and a reckoning with a fatal gap between who he has become, and who he once aspired to be. A technically challenging and morally complex novel. 294pp.