Orfeo

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