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Ann Patchett

Bel Canto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

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Further Reading & Resources

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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