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Inside the ancient myth, Orpheus travels to the underworld to rescue his lover Eurydice from death. In this particular compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of her lover. A mathematical genius, Leela has escaped her hardscrabble Southern hometown to review in Boston. There she encounters Mishka, a young Australian musician who soon becomes her lover. The other day Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation centre. There's been an ‘incident’, an explosion on the underground; terrorists are suspected. Her interrogators reveal that Mishka may well not be all he seems. But as she struggles to digest all of this, Mishka disappears…Achingly sensual, effortlessly lyrical, Janette Turner Hospital’s dazzling Orpheus Lost is a robust and disturbing novel. It really is both a love story on a grand scale that spans America, Australia and Baghdad, and an study of what happens to individuals when terrible mistakes are made in the name of ‘national security’.
