by wasp1028
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Ann Patchett
2008-06-12
book
Bel Canto
Opera and terrorism make strange bedfellows, yet in this novel they complement each other nicely. At a birthday party for Japanese industrialist Mr. Hosokawa somewhere in South America, famous American soprano Roxanne Coss is just finishing her recital in the Vice President's home when armed terrorists appear, intending to take the President hostage. However, he is not there, so instead they hold the international businesspeople and diplomats at the party, releasing all the women except Roxanne. Captors and their prisoners settle into a strange domesticity, with the opera diva captivating them all as she does her daily practicing. Soon romantic liaisons develop with the hopeless intensity found in many opera plots. Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars) balances terrorism, love, and music nicely here.
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by vslogue
Type: fiction
Status: liked
Author: Ann Patchett
Description: Opera and terrorism make strange bedfellows, yet in this novel they complement each other nicely....
2007-08-17
by 4_out_of_5
Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Ann Patchett
Tags: love music terrorism language
2006-02-20
by cowgirlout
Type: fiction
Status: —
Author: Ann Patchett
Tags: 8
Description: A book that moves along well, and hooks interest easily, but sometimes I just get tired of...
2006-01-08