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Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Title	:	Bel Canto
Author	:	Ann Patchett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	August 2nd 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published May 22nd 2001)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fairies. Fae. Young Adult. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Magic

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In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.

Among the hostages are Russian, Italian, and French diplomatic types. Swiss Red Cross negotiator oachim Messner comes and goes, wrangling over terms and demands. Days stretch into weeks, the weeks into months. Joined by no common language except music, the 58 international hostages and their captors forge unexpected bonds. Time stands still, priorities rearrange themselves. Ultimately, of course, something has to give.

Hearing opera sung live for the first time, a young priest reflects:

Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven.

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Original Title:	Bel Canto
ISBN:	0060838728 (ISBN13: 9780060838720)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Katsumi Hosokawa, Roxane Coss, Gen Watanabe, Carmen Lowell
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize for Fiction (2002), Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Paperback (2003), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2002), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2001), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2003)

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1.5 "overwrought, stereotypical, ridiculous" stars !! 2015 Most Disappointing Read Award (tie) Of all the books on my reading list, "Bel Canto" was one that I was most looking forward to. You see after my faith and my loved ones the thing I most adore is Opera. Opera has been my passion, my solace, my escape and the most direct connection to my emotional life. I have found Opera beautiful, profound, wise and affirming. I was introduced to Opera at the age of 10 and since then there has not been

I was only 3 when Patty Hearst showed up on TV toting a semi automatic weapon looking bewildered and stylish in a length leather belted coat. Do I remember this? Hell no, I was three, but later you know when I was like eight or nine and I would think it was so cool that she was brainwashed---what an interesting word--- and Id have Barbie kidnap Skipper and force her to drop her frumpy ways and really live the lie, I mean life. Sorry.So, what does that have to do with this? Well, I guess you

Stay With This One. It's Worth It. Bel Canto is one of those novels that is good on so many levels, it's taken me days after finishing it to put my thoughts about the story and the characters into words. This work is as lyrical and dramatic as any opera, and the word "brilliant" isn't excessive to describe the talent of author, Ann Patchett. I wondered how she came up with such a remarkable and unique story, but then learned she'd been influenced by actual events involving a hostage situation in

How could a wanna-read-bad TBR turn into a sorry-ass DNF?WTF? DNF! OMG!WTF?Who AM I? I finish every book I start, yet I did not finish this one! And I LOVE Ann Patchett! Her State of Wonder is one of my all-time favorite books! What the fuck is going on?DNF!Im having a serious crisis here. Have I thought this out carefully? Can I really pull off abandoning this book? I must do it. Calm down. Its okay. Listen to your friends who whisper, Its fine.let go A zillion other books are beckoning. Yes,

All in all a little too sugar-coated for my taste the discovered friendships, unlikely loves, the pervading beauty of every damn thing . . . And the purported passion surrounding one of the most important elements, opera, was unconvincing. It felt largely like a vacuous prop to be honest, like rattling off a list of arias to prove yourself a connoisseur of the beautiful.But the writing was decent and I decided about a quarter of the way through I shouldnt be too hard-hearted (and the book aimed

i don't think i want to rate this book. in my opinion it's not a good book, but there is something very powerful about it and i don't think a rating can do justice to the combination of these two facts -- the fact that it isn't a good book and the fact that there is something powerful about it. it isn't a good book for all the reasons everyone who gave it one star brings up. what is powerful about it is that the whole book is a tribute to womanhood. someone told me yesterday that everyone loves

High 4*I'm patting myself on the back for trying this audiobook again. The first time around, I just couldn't get into it - I put it down to not being in the right mood, although it was puzzling as I adore Opera and I'm keen on Latin anything and I had enjoyed Patchett's writing before.For what it's worth, I wasn't as enchanted with Anna Fields' delivery. I hope this audiobook is reissued, with a better production - I mean you have opera, you have all kind of languages, bullets - it could be an