Bel Canto American Classics Edition - A Novel

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
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 08.04.2026
• EAN: 9780063484177
• ISBN: 978-0-06-348417-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: HarperCollins American Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Romance, Narrative theme: Interior life, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Action & Adventure, FICTION: Crime, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Romance / Multicultural & Interracial, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Adventure / action fiction, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, Classic fiction: general and literary, Harper Perennial Classics / Fiction, First Year Experience / Fiction