Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
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.
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.
Format: Paperback | 386 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4 | 266g
Publication Date: 01 May 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Publication City/Country: Pymble, SYD, Australia
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0732284422
ISBN13: 9780732284428
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some obvious damage to the cover including minor scuff marks, a large crease on the bottom-right corner of the front corner, and some creasing on the back cover, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. There is very minor discolouring on a small handful of pages, none of which compromises the legibilty or understanding of the text. No missing pages.