Bel Canto
Book • 2001 • Drama
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Although this whole book involves a hostage situation, no character is tortured. It is implied that unspecified individuals in prison may be being tortured
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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A character is missing two fingers, which we at one point find out we’re shot off at some point before the events of the book
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Is there sexual content?
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The book has mentions of desire and the lead up and aftermath of sexual encounters. Little to no explicit descriptions of sexual acts
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Passing mentions of people who shave or give up shaving over the course of the book
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Are needles/syringes used?
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The vice president character gets hit in the face by one of the terrorists. He has to get stitches.
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Does someone drown?
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Mention of a character’s brother who died of drowning
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Is there gun violence?
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Spoiler: the ending features many characters getting gunned down by government agents
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Throughout the book, a large number of characters are held hostage in a mansion. The mansion is big, but some people end up spending a lot of time in small, hidden away places
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Is there addiction?
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A character is very focused on when he will get to smoke his next cigarette.
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Does someone cheat?
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A character is described as not always being entirely faithful to his wife, but the narrative doesn’t go into detail about that. A separate character falls in love with and starts sleeping with someone in the hostage group, even though he is married
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The whole book is about a group of people held hostage by terrorists. The terrorists originally intend to kidnap the president, but are unable to
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cigarettes
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Is there a dead animal?
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Meat, in particular, a scene where the characters are trying to prepare whole chickens
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