Of a soap-opera heroine named Maria to free herself from captivity. To him, no number of glorious arias and no number of supposed commercial opportunities are worth missing the valiant attempts One who does miss it is the country's president, unwilling to forgo a climactic moment in his favorite television program. Although he feels twinges of guilt for accepting the invitation, the opportunity is too rare to be missed. But never before has he heard her in such a close, intimate Hosokawa has already attended 18 of her performances in concert halls around the world, often inventing business trips that will place him in the audience. Even so, he has been unable to resist the bait that's been dangled before him: a recital by the lyric soprano RoxaneĬoss. The not-so-subtle intention is to charm the industrialist into investing in the host country, something he has no intention of doing.
Of a Japanese electronics mogul and opera buff named Katsumi Hosokawa. Loosely inspired by that event, Ann Patchett's fourth novel is set in the vice-presidential mansion of an unnamed South American capital, where some 200 foreign diplomats, government officials and businessmen have gathered to celebrate the birthday The resulting siege lasted four months, captured international headlines and ended in a bloody assault by the Peruvian military. N December 1996, 14 members of the Tupac Amaru guerrilla group entered the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru, seized nearly 600 hostagesĪnd demanded the release of a number of political prisoners.
In Ann Patchett's novel, a lyric soprano is among those taken hostage in South America.
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