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Rating:  - Boring, mis-directed and a realy snoozer
I've read thousands of wonderful fiction books in my life and this has to be one of the worst ever! The book just drags on and on -- I kept reading, hoping that I would come upon a good part, but never did. Don't waste your time.
Rating:  - Nectar for the soul
Easily one of the most beautiful and engaging books I've ever read. (And I almost didn't read it -- did I really need a novel about a black-tie dinner party held hostage by band of terrorists?) It is enchanting, insightful, tender, charming...and above all, exquisitly written.
Rating: - Touching and lyrical
A birthday bash held at an impoverished Latin American country in the honor of Japanese Electronics magnate Mr. Hosokawa is abruptly interrupted by a terrorist siege. Amongst the international array of hostage is celebrated Opera chanteuse Roxanne Coss, vice-president Iglesias, a priest and others of Russian, French and Swedish origins with a Swiss Red-cross negotiator Jochaim Messner. Bel Canto is hence a story on the incarceration and the interaction of the motley group of terrorists with the hostage.And what a story - told with lyrical prose and grace under Ann Patchett's observant eye. It is boldly imaginative of Patchett to use opera arias as the language that bridge the diverse group and transform the grisly labyrinth into a humane heaven of love and kindness. She treads desire and passion between the translator Gen and terrorist Carmen, fatuation in Hosokawa for Roxanne and kindness when Roxanne coaches Cesar in singing. The different myriads of romance and love are scripted with emotional delicacy and a sweeping magical realism that knits you to the forgotten community and haunts you with a shattering finale. Infinitely touching, Bel Canto is a gorgeous symphony on the transcendance of love and kindness.
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