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Bel Canto
By Ann Patchett
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By Ann Patchett
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Before The Dutch House and Tom Lake, there was Bel Canto. This is the luminous novel about music and art, love and connection that put Ann Patchett on the map for readers.
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World
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 ...
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