Bel Canto Hardcover - 2001
by Ann Patchett
From the bestselling author of "The Magician's Assistant" comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed into an unexpected heaven on earth.
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening--until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots.
Without the demands of the world to shape their days, life on the inside becomes more beautiful than anything they had known before. At once riveting and impassioned, the narrative becomes a moving exploration of how people communicate when music is the only common language. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion and cannot be stopped.
Ann Patchett has written a novel that is as lyrical and profound as it is unforgettable. Bel Canto engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover. As a reader, you find yourself fervently wanting this captivity to continue forever, even though you know that real life waits on the other side of the garden wall. A virtuoso performance by one of our best and most important writers, Bel Canto is a novel to be cherished.
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- Title Bel Canto
- Author Ann Patchett
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, New York
- Date 2001
- ISBN 9780060188733 / 0060188731
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6 x 1.2 in (23.88 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
- Reading level 930
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00053671
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Best of Book Sense/First 5 Yrs, 04/01/2004, Page 1
- Booklist, 06/01/2001, Page 1848
- Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04, 05/01/2004, Page 1
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/27/2008, Page 102
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2001, Page 531
- Library Journal, 02/15/2001, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 02/15/2001, Page 148
- New Yorker (The), 10/01/2007, Page 98
- People Weekly, 06/13/2011, Page 61
- Publishers Weekly, 04/16/2001, Page 42
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