![]() ![]() In an unnamed Latin American country, a birthday party is being given in honor of Mr. If this recitation sounds banal, it is to the credit of the writer that no note in the book falls to that level. Although we, along with both terrorists and hostages in the book, realize that in the end the forces of hatred are stronger and must win over love, we have no real choice but to live for the few moments of grace where attachment does win over separation. Her lyrical prose resurrects humanism from cliché. Patchett makes her captors and captives forget all that they have learned and relearn what they have been taught to forget. Luckily for us, she finished the book by May, 2001, and succeeded in giving us an honest look at the common humanity that bridges the roles ostensibly played by terrorists and hostages, and other supposed opposites of the same kind, without being affected by the false sentiments produced copiously by official culture. ![]() Ann Patchett has wondered how differently she might have written this book after the events of September 11. ![]()
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