A major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.

"Blissfully Romantic....A strange, terrific, spellcasting story." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Bel Canto...should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty." --Lloyd Moss, WXQR

"Glorious." --The New Yorker

Ann Patchett's award winning, New York Times bestselling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchett's other novels, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician's Assistant, the author's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 05/22/2001
ISBN: 9780060188733
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.52w x 1.17d
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Winner
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner
Award: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Nominee

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/15/2001 pg. 148
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2001 pg. 531
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2001 pg. 42
Entertainment Weekly 06/08/2001 pg. 70
New Yorker (The) 06/18/2001 pg. 164
Booklist 06/01/2001 pg. 1848
Library Journal 07/01/2001 pg. 125
People Weekly 09/10/2001 pg. 51
Best of Book Sense/First 5 Yrs 04/01/2004 pg. 1
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
Library Journal 02/15/2001
New Yorker (The) 10/01/2007 pg. 98
People Weekly 10/01/2007 pg. 59
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102
People Weekly 06/13/2011 pg. 61

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 155131 / Bel Canto
Reading Level: 6.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 19