Bel Canto
Bel Canto
62 pages2-hour read
Fiction
Novel
Adult
Published in 2001
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Further reading: Selected Bibliography of Ann Patchett
Fiction:
- The Patron Saint of Liars (1992)
- Taft (1994)
- The Magician’s Assistant (1997)
- Run (2007)
- State of Wonder (2011)
- Commonwealth (2016)
- The Dutch House (2019)
- Tom Lake (2023)
Nonfiction:
- Truth and Beauty: A Friendship (2004)
- What Now? (2008)
- This is the Story of a Happy Marriage (2013)
- These Precious Days: Essays (2021)
Further reading: Nonfiction Resources
- Read this article from The New York Times about the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis of 1996-97.
- Peruse a video account from the International Red Cross twenty years after the original crisis.
- Watch a Netflix documentary on the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis.
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