{"product_id":"9781897082010","title":"Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel Bel Canto","description":"\u003cbr\u003eOn December 17, 1996, fourteen MRTA revolutionaries stormed the Japanese embassy in Peru in the middle of a party celebrating the Japanese Emperor's birthday. The siege was deadlocked for 126 days. Ann Patchett has fictionalized this dramatic and true event in her novel, \u003ci\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/i\u003e. Bookclub-in-a-Box shows how Ann Patchett sets the stage and has the players act out the drama of this hostage-taking incident. What should be narrated as a tense and terse action-filled tragedy turns out to be a human story told with warmth and sardonic humor. Patchett has taken a cacophony of different characters - an opera singer, a Japanese businessman, a translator, a vice-president of a small South American country, other important dignitaries and a couple of dozen terrorists - and has created a lyrical story which resonates with the similarities among people, rather than their differences. The Bookclub-in-a-Box guide to \u003ci\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/i\u003e will interpret Patchett's novel,voice by voice.","brand":"Bookclub-In-A-Box","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033068847344,"sku":"9781897082010","price":14.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781897082010_p0.jpg?v=1763611190","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781897082010","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}