# Bel Canto - Paperback

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by **Ann Patchett** (Author)

**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 21****st** **Century**

**"_Bel Canto_ is its own universe. A marvel of a book." --_Washington Post Book World_**

**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.

### Back Jacket

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 gunwielding 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.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 0.83 x 8.1 x 5.32 IN

**Publication Date:** August 02, 2005

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Bel Canto

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 6.3

**Point Value:** 19

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