num_pages: 368
description: In this powerful and passionate new novel Janette Turner Hospital tackles head-on questions of national security art terrorism and love. 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 interrogatoran old childhood friendnow 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 ( San Diego Union-Tribune ) 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
title: Orpheus Lost
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company