Bel Canto
A Novel
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- 179,00 Kč
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- 179,00 Kč
Publisher Description
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World
New York Times bestselling author 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Like a haunting song, we couldn’t get Ann Patchett’s breakout novel out of our heads. A world-renowned soprano performs at a gala in honor of a Japanese executive held in an unnamed South American country, but the festivities come to a shocking end when guerrillas hijack the party. As days stretch into weeks, the line between hostage and captor blurs as the divisions between Patchett’s diverse characters slowly disappear and their shared humanity comes to the surface. Bel Canto is a beautifully humanistic story; we’re looking forward to seeing Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe bring the book’s emotion to the screen.
