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Bel Canto Later Printing Edition
Author(s): Ann Patchett (Author)
- Publisher: Harpercollins Pb
- Publication Date: January 1, 2002
- Edition: Later Printing
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 1841155837
- ISBN-13: 9781841155838
Book Description
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.
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