Orpheus – A Novel - Hardcover

Hospital, Janette Turner

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744 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393065529 ISBN 13: 9780393065527

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007

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In this powerful and passionate new novel, Janette Turner Hospital tackles head-on questions of national security, art, terrorism, and love. Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston. She meets an Australian musician, Mishka, and from the moment she first hears him play his music grips her; they quickly become lovers. Then one day Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation center somewhere outside the city. There has been an explosion in the subway; terrorism is suspected. The interrogator-- an old childhood friend-- now reveals to her that Mishka may not be all he seems. In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture, and despair in search of her lover. Janette Turner Hospital, whose works are richly imbued with a highly lyrical and luminous quality (San Diego Union-Tribune) again shows her genius, interweaving a literary thriller with a story of passion and the triumph of decency in confusing and dangerous times.

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" One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today." -- ("The Times Literary Supplement") Praise for Janette Turner Hospital and "Due Preparations for the Plague": " Move over Twain, DeLillo and Franzen. Janette Turner Hospital remakes the American social novel. Thrilling, maddening, deeply moral . . . a near flawless novel, and one so timely it is breathtaking." -- "The Globe and Mail" " Hospital masterfully raises the big questions in a compelling . . . mesmerizing manner, drawing in the reader to a riveting degree." -- "San Diego Tribune"

Synopsis:

Having escaped her southern hometown to study in Boston, mathematician Leela embarks on a consuming love affair with an Australian musician who is subsequently accused of participating in a terrorist attack on a subway, a situation that thrusts Leela into a dangerous underground world of kidnapping, torture, and despair.

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