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 internationally bestselling 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

• Authors: Ann Patchett, Patchett Ann
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9780008610029
• ISBN: 978-0-00-861002-9
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Collins Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; South America, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Adult & contemporary romance, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Media Tie-In, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Narrative theme: Politics, Political / legal thriller, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Thriller: terrorism, Modern and Contemporary romance