Question

A novel by this author opens with the protagonist waiting in a café outside the PanOpticon skyscraper, but failing to work up the courage to approach a lawyer who works there. In that novel by this author, the protagonist and his friend Yuzu Daimon are kidnapped by a yakuza gang. The ninth and final chapter is left blank in a novel by this author (-5[1])about (10[1])Eiji (“ay-jee”) Miyake’s search for his father. (10[1]-5[1])In a novel by this author, a member of the rebel group Union (10[1])reveals that some characters are recycled into a food called “Soap.” (10[1]-5[2])The dystopian state of Nea So Copros in Korea (10[1])is the setting of a narrative by this author in which a restaurant called Papa Song’s (10[1])employs (10[1])the fabricant Sonmi~451. (10[4])A novel by this author (10[2])includes “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing” (10[1])and “Letters (10[1])from Zedelghem” among its six nested stories. For 10 points, (10[1])name this British author (10[1])of number9dream (10[1])and Cloud Atlas. ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: David Mitchell [or David Stephen Mitchell]
<British Literature>
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%19%123.57

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Wenying WuToronto AYale B63-5
Daniel SheinbergYale ARutgers B6410
Vittal BhatNorth Carolina ACornell A7010
Todd MaslykMichigan AGeorgia Tech A70-5
Matt JacksonChicago AMaryland A8310
Halle FriedmanNYU ABrown A9410
Anson BernsBrown ANYU A94-5
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AMinnesota A94-5
Kevin FanMcGill AWUSTL B10310
Paul LeeWUSTL AFlorida A11910
Tim MorrisonStanford AMinnesota B12010
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AVirginia A12310
Richard NiuCornell BClaremont A12310
Chris RayOhio State AUC Berkeley B12310
Mitch McCullarIllinois AFlorida B12310
Justin HawkinsIndiana ASouth Carolina A12810
Ashish SubramanianDuke APenn State A12810
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AMichigan A13510
Amogh KulkarniChicago BImperial A13710
Darren PetrosinoRutgers APenn A14710
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AIowa State A15110
Karan GurazadaTexas AColumbia A15310
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AGeorgia Tech B15710
Joel MilesMinnesota AVanderbilt A15710
Karsten RynearsonYale BToronto A15710