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Orpheus Lost

Janette Turner Hospital

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston. She meets an Australian musician, Mishka, and from the moment she first hears him play his music grips her; they quickly become lovers. Then one day Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation center somewhere outside the city. There has been an explosion in the subway; terrorism is suspected. The interrogator—an old childhood friend—now reveals to her that Mishka may not be all he seems. In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture, and despair in search of her lover. Janette Turner Hospital, whose works are "richly imbued with a highly lyrical and luminous quality" again shows her genius, interweaving a literary thriller with a story of passion and the triumph of decency in confusing and dangerous times.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: October 17, 2007

ISBN: 0393065529

ISBN 13: 9780393065527

Orpheus Lost

Janette Turner Hospital

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston. She meets an Australian musician, Mishka, and from the moment she first hears him play his music grips her; they quickly become lovers. Then one day Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation center somewhere outside the city. There has been an explosion in the subway; terrorism is suspected. The interrogator—an old childhood friend—now reveals to her that Mishka may not be all he seems. In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture, and despair in search of her lover. Janette Turner Hospital, whose works are "richly imbued with a highly lyrical and luminous quality" again shows her genius, interweaving a literary thriller with a story of passion and the triumph of decency in confusing and dangerous times.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: October 17, 2007

ISBN: 0393065529

ISBN 13: 9780393065527

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