Bel Canto
Author(s): Ann Patchett
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerised the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening - until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.
General Information
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- : 0.272155
- : 01 April 2002
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Ann Patchett
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813/.54
- : 336