Bel Canto Speeches and Job have won the

and Job have won the hearts of readers and critics alike

If you’re into layered tales that blend action with deep human questions

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

hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair

and rich with detail

Bel Canto Speeches and Job have won 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