Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett · 2001
Literary Fiction · ranked #200 in category
Winner · The Women's Prize for Fiction, 2002
When terrorists seize a South American vice-president's mansion during a soprano's recital, they take dozens of hostages — and the weeks of captivity that follow become a strange, suspended world in which music, love and an unlikely community develop in the middle of a political crisis. Patchett's PEN/Faulkner winner is about beauty, connection and the life that forms in confinement.
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