Bel canto: a novel by Ann Patchett
Date: 17 July 2009
Intense and moving, this story of love, discovery, and the transformational power of music is set in the extraordinary situation of a hostage takeover.Strong friendships and bonds forged among the most unlikely people attest to humanity’s needs and desires being mutual and universal. Our continual societal separation from each other is a manmade construction and our own choosing. Strong, vivid and endearing characters are drawn in a gradually developing plot concluding with an ending which, although inevitable, is also unexpected in part. Readers cannot fail to be moved by this story’s horror and beauty.
MH