Bel Canto
Author(s): Ann Patchett
Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of State of Wonder 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. Roxanne 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : HarperCollins
- : 0.7
- : 31 May 2008
- : 1.00000mm X 5.50000mm X 8.00000mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ann Patchett
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813/.54
- : bl2012036997
- : 352