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Bel Canto

by Ann Patchett

Music amid crisis in *Bel Canto*

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New York Times bestseller
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Critical praise
Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle
The review calls the book blissfully romantic, strange, terrific, and spellcasting.

Music amid crisis in *Bel Canto*

Ann Patchett brings together characters from different backgrounds in a crisis that places them in a shared, confined situation. Music becomes their common language, connecting the novel’s exploration of love and imprisonment with questions of strength and vulnerability. The premise gives the story a distinct tension: people divided by circumstance discover a point of connection without the crisis itself disappearing. The publisher description also identifies romance as a central strand, alongside the role music plays in shaping relationships among the characters.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

Readers interested in literary fiction about people from differing backgrounds brought together by crisis.
Those drawn to novels that connect music with love, confinement, and human vulnerability.
Readers seeking a romance that unfolds within a crisis.

Themes

Music as a shared languageLove and imprisonmentStrength and vulnerabilityConnection across differences

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Book overview

NYT Bestseller

A major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.

"Blissfully romantic....A strange, terrific, spellcasting story." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Bel Canto...should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty." --Lloyd Moss, WXQR

Ann Patchett's award winning Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchett's other novels, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician's Assistant, the author's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.

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