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From the bestselling author of The Magician's Assistant comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed into an unexpected heaven on earth. NYT Bestseller A major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. Blissfully romantic....A strange, terrific, spellcasting story. -- San Francisco Chronicle Bel Canto ...should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty. --Lloyd Moss, WXQR Ann Patchett's award winning Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchett's other novels, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician's Assistant , the author'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.
A strange, terrific, spellcasting story (San Francisco Chronicle), Bel Canto engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. Blissfully Romantic....A strange, terrific, spell
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 b
Set over a period of 24 hours, Run shows how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include the most unlikely of people, in this novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths people will go to protect their children. Engaging, s
A book that works both as a paean to art and beauty and a subtly sly comedy of manners.--Janet Maslin, New York Times A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's prized classic, annotated and with an introduction by the author herself. First publishe
