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  Orpheus Lost

 
Orpheus Lost
Author:    Janette Turner Hospital
ISBN:    9780732284428
ISBN-10:    0732284422
Publisher:    HarperCollins Publishers
Format:    Paperback Book
Pages:    384
Language:    English
RRP: $24.99
PRICE: $23.49
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Book Description:
Leela is a gifted mathematician who has escaped her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the first moment she hears Mishka, a young Australian musician, playing his violin in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers. Their souls, bodies, lives are fused, and love offers protection of sorts from the violence and anxiety around them, until Leela is taken off the street to an interrogation centre somewhere outside the city. There has been an 'incident', an explosion on the underground; terrorists are suspected, security is high. And her old childhood friend Cobb is conducting a very questionable investigation. Now he reveals to her that Mishka may not be all he seems. That there may be more to his past than his story of growing up in the Daintree with an eccentric musical family. Leela has already discovered that Mishka is spending some evenings not at the Music Lab but at a cafe. A cafe, Cobb tells her, known to be a terrorist contact point. Who can she believe? In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels to an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of the truth -- and the man she loves.


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Category: Fiction - General
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Review by Kelly 
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is the blueprint for this modern tale about an America that has become plagued by suicide bombers, and the brilliant, eccentric young lovers who become tangled in an incident in Boston.

This novel is extraordinary, there are so many layers to both the story and the characters that I simply couldn't leave the story when I put the book down. It followed me the whole time I was reading it and for weeks afterward.

The writing is lush and evocative, and the themes of love, loss, obsession, music, identity, and the influence of the past are enthralling and worth pondering.

Such a wonderful reading experience, when you read this you will feel it, hear it and breathe it in. Glorious!

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