In this novel, an affair between Carmen and Gen develops from nightly meetings in a china closet arranged so the latter can teach the former English. For the stated number of points:
[10h] Name this novel that depicts a brief romance between Katsumi Hosokawa and Roxane Coss. At its end, Hosokawa dies while attempting to shield Carmen from gunfire.
ANSWER: Bel Canto
[10e] Bel Canto's author Ann Patchett documented her friendship with the late writer Lucy Grealy in a memoir titled for these two concepts, which are equated in the closing lines of “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
ANSWER: truth and beauty [accept answers in either order; accept Truth & Beauty]
[10m] The line “Parsifal is dead” opens a 1997 Patchett novel titled for an assistant to someone in this profession. Quentin Coldwater becomes one of the Physical Kids at Brakebills in a 2009 novel titled for members of this profession.
ANSWER: magicians [accept The Magician's Assistant or The Magicians (by Lev Grossman)]
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