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Bel canto : a novel / Ann Patchett.

by Patchett, Ann.

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HarperCollins, c2001.

Victims of terrorism -- Fiction.

Hostages -- Fiction.

Women singers -- Fiction.

Women's Prize for Fiction.

PEN/Faulkner Award.

Embassy buildings -- Fiction.

South America -- Fiction.

9780060188733 (hardcover)

9780060838720 (2005 Harper Perennial trade pbk.)

9780062891907 (2005 Harper Perennial movie tie-in trade pbk.)

9780061565311 (2008 HarperPerennial Modern Classics trade pbk.)

318 p. ; 24 cm.

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. 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 breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots.

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2002.

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2002.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

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