Bel Canto

Opis

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 internationally bestselling 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 gre