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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780008610029
- Categories 3rd Qt, BX, BXOS, F LIT, Fiction, Literary Fiction, New Arrivals OS, R/R, SEPT24_1
- Author(s) Ann Patchett
- Publisher Harpercollins Publishers (UK)
- Pages 336
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 13cm x 2cm x 19.8cm
- Weight 0.23 kg
product description
Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
The poignant – and at times very funny – novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerised the international guests with her singing.
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.
