Bel Canto PB_Gift_Guide As provocative today as when

As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954

and Citrus & Garlic-Herb-Braised Fennel are enticing enough without meat substitutes

and our hand-drawn illustrations which place you inside the city's iconic buildings and neighbourhoods

immigrants from mining camps-to fight the fire

a songwriter who inadvertently breaks up a marriage

Bel Canto PB_Gift_Guide As provocative today as whenWinner 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 Patchetts 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