Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Winner of The Women&#39;s Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.<br /> <br /> <br /> The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.<br /> <br /> Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country&#39;s vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera&#39;s most revered soprano, has mesmerised the international guests with her singing.<br /> <br /> 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.