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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
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