Bel Canto Speeches The debut novel from the

The debut novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author that is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking

By turns beautiful and tragic

A playful and exuberant romp through history

Spanish speaking

" and whether those who consider themselves "true believers" actually are

Bel Canto Speeches The debut novel from theWinner of the PEN Faulkner Award Winner of the Orange Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century "Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." Washington Post Book World Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's