Bel Canto

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.

Author: Ann Patchett
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 05/22/2001
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780060188733


Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Award: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Nominee
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Winner