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Bel Canto Paperback - 2005

by Ann Patchett

"A strange, terrific, spellcasting story" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), "Bel Canto" engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover.


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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner of the Orange Prize - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." --Washington Post Book World

Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis.

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. 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 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.

Patchett's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.

First line

When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her.

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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 the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding 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.

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  • Title Bel Canto
  • Author Ann Patchett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Date 2005-08-02
  • ISBN 9780060838720 / 0060838728
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.32 x 0.83 in (20.57 x 13.51 x 2.11 cm)
  • Reading level 930
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Love stories
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 06/29/2012, Page 77
  • Ingram Advance, 08/01/2005, Page 38
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