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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become...

"Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction."--New York Times Book Review

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Infusing the narrative with the same ingenuity and emotional urgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous novels Bel Canto, Taft, Run, The Magician's Assistant, and The Patron Saint of Liars, Patchett delivers an enthrallingly innovative tale of aspiration,...

"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 Pratchett's award winning, New York Times bestselling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate...

Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe.

Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each...

Wenn das Traumhaus kein Glück bringt: Der große Familienroman der Bestsellerautorin
Boston, USA: Schauplatz einer einzigartigen Geschwisterliebe und des Aufstiegs und Falls einer Familie. Ann Patchett wurde für ihren Roman für den Pulitzer-Preis nominiert.  

Geld macht nicht glücklich. Das muss der Immobilienmakler Cyril feststellen, als ihn seine Frau verlässt, weil sie den Luxus im Holländerhaus nicht aushält. Und auch sonst ist der Familie das Glück nicht gerade hold: Als Cyril stirbt, wirft seine neue Frau ihre Stiefkinder Danny und Maeve kurzerhand...

Ein unvergessliches Buch über Liebe, Verlust, die Wunder der Freundschaft. Ann Patchett blickt zurück auf die letzten zehn Jahre ihres Lebens, auf ihre Beziehungen zu den Personen und Persönlichkeiten in dieser Zeit. Es geht um ihre Familie (zum Beispiel ihre diversen Väter), um ihren Mann, ihre Freundinnen und Freunde und um ihre Hunde. Es geht um Liebe und Glück, um Mut und Trauer und immer wieder um das Schreiben. Ihre freundliche Weltoffenheit und ihre klugen emotionalen und intellektuellen Einsichten machen aus dieser Sammlung eine kleine Offenbarung.