Bel Canto
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.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9781841155838 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Patchett, Ann | |
| PUBLISHER : HarperCollins Publishers | PUBLICATION DATE : April 30, 2002 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Fourth Estate Ltd |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 250 g
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