Bel canto
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ann Patchett
Series: Telling stories!
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780007268313
Subjects: Hostage negotiations; Hostages; Fiction
Description: A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.
Notes: Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2001.