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Ann Patchett is among my favorite authors, and this book only helped to build that author-love. At the beginning of the book, a dinner with dozens of international guests in an unnamed South American country is taken hostage, only to realize the person they meant to kidnap isn't in attendance. The book then explores the relationships, friendships, and rivalries that unfold in a somewhat utopian "society." Ann's style reminds me of a moving camera circling a party, paragraphs jumping from person
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Aug 21, 2010
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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it was amazing
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I was positively mesmerized by this from the first page. The story concerns an international group of party-goers gathered in a unnamed fictional South American country to hear a star opera singer, Roxane Coss, singing in honor of Katsumi Hosokawa, head of a major Japanese corporation. They're taken hostage by a terrorist group who had hoped to kidnap the president of the country--who, as it happens, wasn't present because he couldn't miss his favorite soap opera.
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I thought I would have to understand and love opera to like this book- hmmm. Until this story helped me to understand it as an interesting libretto. The next opera I’ll try with the music and actors.
One of my favorites. My first Nook book too
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