Bel Canto - Film Tie In

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 doing what she does best. . . . What gives this novel its power is Patchett''s flair for sketching the subtleties of her characters'' behavior.''-New York Times Book Review Freshman Common Book: NYU/Steinhardt School, Converse College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Product details

• Authors: Ann Patchett, Patchett Ann
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780062891907
• ISBN: 978-0-06-289190-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Action & Adventure, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION