num_pages: 318
description: Special This PerfectBound e-book contains our exclusive interview with Ann Patchett. Somewhere in South America, at home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of a powerful Japanese businessman. A famous American opera diva entertains the international guests. It is a night out of a fairytale -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario turns into something quite different -- as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds...people from different countries and continents become compatriots...and passionate, ill-fated love blooms upon this unlikely soil.
language: English
title: Bel Canto - Advance Reading Copy
titlecomplete: Bel Canto - Advance Reading Copy
characters: Carmen Lowell, Roxane Coss, Gen Watanabe, Katsumi Hosokawa
genres: Fiction, Music, Book Club, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 275562
places: South America
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Paperback, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Fourth Estate