Orpheus Lost

Love can take you to the darkest places ...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.But Mishka is not all he seems - and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was.In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels to an underworld of kidnapping,...
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Love can take you to the darkest places ...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.But Mishka is not all he seems - and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was.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.'a wise, rich, alarming novel' Boston Globe'breathtaking ... a book full of intelligence and drama and compassion that is also a captivating page-turner' The Age'Lushly orchestrated, Orpheus Lost answers grief and fear with an emotional expressiveness more visceral than words, with the candor of music - and of myth' Los Angeles Times'richly satisfying ... Orpheus Lost is one of the finest of recent Australian novels' Bulletin with Newsweek'a magnificent novelist ... a novel orchestrated with great complexity, but where the melody is always clear and powerfully engaging' Australian Jewish News'tautly composed, beautifully written ... a meditative, dreamlike reflection on the glorious, sublime, grotesque and broken world we live in' Sun-Herald