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Review title: An allegory for our time
Product review: When a hostage taking situation develops at a party held in the vice president's home in an unnamed South American country (based on a real life event in 1996 in Peru), and featuring a world famous opera singer, the hostages and those being held are forced to re-evaluate the meaning of life, as each side meets the unknown element in the other, including the fact that there are people from multiple cultures speaking several different languages. Love and music, the bel canto, become the primary life sustaining forces, the common denominators. Although lighthearted in tone, there is an undercurrent which tells you that this unexpectedly idyllic cocoon cannot last. A clever and original work of magical realism that will also make the reader take stock.
