BEL CANTO
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction.
The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerised the international guests with her singing.
It is a perfect evening - until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.
ANN PATCHETT
Ann Patchett is the author of six novels, including Bel Canto, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She writes for the New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, the Financial Times, the Paris Review and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Edad: adultos jóvenes
PATCHETT ANN
Es autora de nueve novelas, cuatro libros de no ficción y dos libros infantiles. Graduada por el Sarah Lawrence College y el Iowa Writer's Workshop, Patchett ha recibido numerosos premios y becas: la National Humanities Medal, el England's Women's Prize, el PEN Faulkner Award, el Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award de la American Academy of Arts and Letters, el Book Sense Book of the Year, una beca Guggenheim, el premio The Chicago Tribune's Heartland, The Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, el American Bookseller's Association's Most Engaging Author Award y el Women's National Book Association's Award. Su novela La casa holandesa fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer. Sus libros han figurado en las listas de libros notables y bestsellers del periódico New York Times. Su obra se ha traducido a más de treinta idiomas.
