Bel Canto

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • Nationwide Guide Critics Circle Award Finalist

"Bel Canto is its personal universe. A marvel of a guide." —Washington Submit Guide World

New York Occasions bestselling creator Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying methods individuals study to speak throughout cultural obstacles in instances of disaster

Someplace in South America, on the dwelling of the nation's vice chairman, a lavish celebration is being held in honor of the highly effective businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the worldwide friends along with her singing. It’s a excellent night—till a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes all the social gathering hostage. However what begins as a panicked, life-threatening situation slowly evolves into one thing fairly completely different, a second of nice magnificence, as terrorists and hostages forge sudden bonds and folks from completely different continents grow to be compatriots, intimate pals, and lovers.

Patchett's lyrical prose and lucid creativeness make Bel Canto a charming story of energy and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring story of transcendent romance.