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From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory and Bewilderment Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 'A virtuoso performance' SUNDAY TIMES 'Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful' INDEPENDENT 'A magnificent and moving novel' LOS ANGELES TIMES Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab - where he is conducting the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find musical patterns in surprising places - has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive, earning him the moniker 'Bioterrorist Bach'. He hatches a daring plan to transform this disastrous collision with the security state into an unforgettable work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around it. A gripping escape narrative filled with lyrical wonder, Orfeo is both a portrait of a creative, obsessive man, and a reflection on finding melodies in everyday life.

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Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful * Independent on Sunday * Powers is prodigiously talented. besides being fearfully erudite, he writes lyrical prose, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life * New York Times * A virtuoso performance * Sunday Times * A magnificent and moving novel * Los Angeles Times * The best novel about classical music ... since Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus * Independent * Orfeo has a galloping finale that is sweet, funny, sad and haunting all at once ... A formidably intelligent, ecstatically noisy novel * Guardian * Extraordinary ... His evocations of music, let alone lost love, simply soar off the page ... Once again, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our finest novelists * Newsday *

Author Information

Richard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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