Bel Canto - Ann Patchett (Paperback) 30-04-2002 Winner of PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction 2002 and Orange Prize 2002 and Orange Prize for Fiction 2002. Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003.

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett (Paperback) 30-04-2002 Winner of PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction 2002 and Orange Prize 2002 and Orange Prize for Fiction 2002. Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003.

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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 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.