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Bel Canto

Audiobook

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

  • Winner of the Orange Prize
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

    "Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World

    New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis

    Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized 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.

    Patchett's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.


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    Publisher: HarperAudio Edition: Unabridged
    Awards:

    OverDrive Listen audiobook

    • ISBN: 9780060783280
    • File size: 326319 KB
    • Release date: August 3, 2004
    • Duration: 11:19:49

    MP3 audiobook

    • ISBN: 9780060783280
    • File size: 326784 KB
    • Release date: August 3, 2004
    • Duration: 11:19:49
    • Number of parts: 9

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    Formats

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook

    Languages

    English

    Levels

    Lexile® Measure:930
    Text Difficulty:4-6

    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

  • Winner of the Orange Prize
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

    "Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World

    New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis

    Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized 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.

    Patchett's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.


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    • Details

      Publisher:
      HarperAudio
      Edition:
      Unabridged

      Awards:

      OverDrive Listen audiobook
      ISBN: 9780060783280
      File size: 326319 KB
      Release date: August 3, 2004
      Duration: 11:19:49

      MP3 audiobook
      ISBN: 9780060783280
      File size: 326784 KB
      Release date: August 3, 2004
      Duration: 11:19:49
      Number of parts: 9

    • Creators
    • Formats
      OverDrive Listen audiobook
      MP3 audiobook
    • Languages
      English
    • Levels
      Lexile® Measure: 930
      Text Difficulty: 4-6
    • Reviews
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