Question

A novel in this language that follows a twenty-three-year-old obsessed with baldness has ten chapters, traditionally read on the last ten nights of the year. In a novel in this language, Quinten's existence is engineered by an angel to return stone tablets to heaven. A narrator (10[1]-5[1])in this language receives the book Camera Obscura, (10[1])which her sister already owns, after excitedly waking up at six o'clock on her birthday. (-5[1])This language was used for the novels The Evenings and The Discovery of Heaven, and a work whose narrator nicknames her suitor ■END■

ANSWER: Dutch [or Nederlands]
<Alexandra Hardwick , Literature - European long fiction>
= Average correct buzz position

Back to tossups

Summary

2023 NASAT06/17/2023Y9100%0%22%97.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jack RadoOhioKentucky A4510
Travis JohnsonPennyslvaniaKentucky B45-5
Rachel EzrielevMaryland RedMissouri A5310
Michael AiAsia AIllinois White68-5
Rohan GaneshanIllinois BlueCalifornia10010
Tanuj ChandekarNew Jersey BMaryland Gold10110
Elle LeeVirginiaMissouri B10110
Omkar MaratheIllinois OrangeNew Jersey A10110
Percy YuenAsia BArkansas10310
Chakrapani GudlavalletiKentucky BPennyslvania13410
Sam AsplundIllinois WhiteAsia A13510