![]() After some negotiations, bring reasonable terrorists, there are thirty nine hostages kept, the rest released. (He elected, instead, to watch his soap opera, changing his mind at the last minute. ![]() Near the end, a ",very reasonable" band of terrorists emerge, turning into a hostage situation when they realize the President is not present, as expected. To get Hosokawa to invest in the country, famous soprano Roxane Coss is scheduled to perform as the highlight of the party. ![]() In an unknown country, in the home of the Vice President, a birthday party is held for Katsumi Hosokawa, the visiting chairman of a large Japanese company and opera enthusiast. Because the hostage situation is finally over. Almost exactly in the middle of page 310/318, Roxane Coss screams. Almost as if she was rushed to meet a deadline. It was not only sudden, but seemingly random. Which she did was not necessarily worse, but definitely as bad. On the contrary, most authors would have made a happy ending out of this story, and I applaud Ann Patchett for not taking the easy way out- however much I wanted it for all the characters I became attached to. ![]() The fact that it was not a happy ending was expected. But not for the reasons one might expect. ![]()
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