Orpheus Lost

Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital


ISBN
9780732284411
Published
Released
20 / 04 / 2009
Binding
Paperback
Pages
368
Dimensions
154 x 234 x 27mm

In the ancient myth, it is Orpheus who travels to the underworld to rescue his lover Eurydice from death.

In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus story, Leela May travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of her lover, Mishka.

Leela is a mathematical genius who escaped her hardscrabble Southern home town to study in Boston. It's there that she meets a young Australian musician, Mishka. From the moment she first hears him play, busking in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers.

Then one day Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation centre somewhere outside the city. There has been an 'incident', and explosion on the underground; terrorists are suspected, security is high. And her old childhood friend Cobb is conducting a very questionable interrogation. Over the years Cobb has never forgotten Leela and the secrets she knows.

Now he reveals t her that Mishka may not be all he seems. That there may be more to him than growing up in the Daintree rainforest in northern Queensland in an eccentric musical family. Leela has already discovered on her own account that some nights when Mishka claims to be at the music lab are actually spent at a café. A café, Cobb tells her, known to be a terrorist contact point.

Who can she believe?

And then Mishka disappears.

In this powerful and passionate novel, Janette Turner Hospital tackles head-on questions of liberty and national security, terrorism and love.
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