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)
FictionNovelAmerican Literature Award
Winners
1 peopleBel 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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