description: 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.
language: English
title: Bel Canto
titlecomplete: Bel Canto
characters: Gen Watanabe, Katsumi Hosokawa, Roxane Coss, Carmen Lowell
genres: Music, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Book Club
ratings_count: 275565
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: Turtleback Books