Bel canto

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'Bel Canto is a tour de force. Gripping and absorbing, I couldn't stop reading.' Penelope Lively
Kidnappers storm ariTntEmational gathering hosted iby a po'6r%atin
American country to promote foreign trade. Unfortunately their intended target, the President, has stayed home to watch his favourite soap. The takeover settles into a siege, bringing together an unlikely assortment of hostages, including a beautiful American opera diva, a Japanese CEO who is her biggest fan, and his unassuming translator, Gen. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love, and a horrific imprisonment is transformed into an unexpected heaven on earth.
'Electrifying. With bravura confidence and inventiveness she varies her pace to encompass both lightning flashes of brutality and terror and long stretches of incarcerated ennui. The novel's sensibilities extend from the sly wit of observational humour to subtle, mournful insights into the nature of yearning and desire.' Alex Clark, Guardian
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'Bel Canto is a tour de force. Gripping and absorbing, I couldn't stop reading.' Penelope Lively
Kidnappers storm ariTntEmational gathering hosted iby a po'6r%atin
American country to promote foreign trade. Unfortunately their intended target, the President, has stayed home to watch his favourite soap. The takeover settles into a siege, bringing together an unlikely assortment of hostages, including a beautiful American opera diva, a Japanese CEO who is her biggest fan, and his unassuming translator, Gen. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love, and a horrific imprisonment is transformed into an unexpected heaven on earth.
'Electrifying. With bravura confidence and inventiveness she varies her pace to encompass both lightning flashes of brutality and terror and long stretches of incarcerated ennui. The novel's sensibilities extend from the sly wit of observational humour to subtle, mournful insights into the nature of yearning and desire.' Alex Clark, Guardian
'Bel Canto is about love in many of its guises: romantic love, married love, and the deep and nourishing love of beauty. Patchett writes with wisdom, humour, and such generosity.' Jane Hamilton
'A cleverly paced, suspenseful novel told with great emotional delicacy: its author earns a powerful, unexpected ending. To be read at a single sitting.' Erica Wagner, The Times
'Siege mentality at its most liberating.' Independent
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