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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ぺん/ふぉーくなーしょう(ふぃくしょんぶもん)

Edition 22 (2002)

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Ann Patchett あん・ぱちぇっと Winner

Bel Canto is set in a South American mansion seized in a hostage crisis, where opera singers and guests develop unexpected bonds of empathy and human connection while confined together. Beauty, violence, and cross-cultural exchange unfold in a quiet and intimate way.

Music and empathy bind people together inside a hostage crisis.

336 pages
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