Orpheus Lost
Author: Janette Turner Hospital
ISBN: 9780732284428
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year first published: 01 May 2008
Pages: 386
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
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.
ISBN: 9780732284428
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year first published: 01 May 2008
Pages: 386
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
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.
