![]() Hosowaka, however, has no intention of building such a factory. ![]() The country's dignitaries have a reason for throwing the party: they want Hosowaka's large electronics company to build a factory in their country. At the beginning of the novel, Coss arrives in the small country to perform at a birthday party for Hosowaka. Coss is an opera singer invited to perform at the party. Hosowaka, a prominent Japanese business mogul and opera fan, is being honored at a birthday party thrown by Peruvian dignitaries and diplomats. ![]() The book features an ensemble of characters the two principal figures are Katsumi Hosowaka and Roxane Coss. The title of American author Ann Patchett’s award-winning novel, Bel Canto (2001) is based on an opera term which means "beautiful singing." The novel takes place during an event modeled on the Lima Crisis, a real-life 1996 hostage situation at the Peruvian home of an ambassador to Japan. ![]()
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