Ann Patchett’s most famous books include her 2001 novel Bel Canto, which received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction (later called the Women’s Prize for Fiction) and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Set in South America, it explores relationships between terrorists and hostages who, shut off from the rest of the world, find unexpected bonds. Patchett’s other popular works include her 2019 novel The Dutch House, a fairy tale that follows two siblings who are deserted by their mother and left penniless by their stepmother.
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