Characters from their Childhood
"They waited, father and son, without speaking, until finally the darkness fell and the first breath of music stirred from someplace far below them. Tiny people, insects, really, slipped out from behind the curtains, opened their mouths, and with their voices gilded the walls with their yearning, their grief, their boundless, reckless love that would lead each one to separate ruin."
Who is Katsumi Hosokawa?
Fill in the blank: When the lights went off the accompanist ____________
What is "kissed her"?
This book, written by Gabriel García Márquez, is read by Simon Thibault and takes place in another South American country
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
The meaning of traductor
What is translator?
"Well, I came here on vacation. It seems that no one is going to get what they want."
Who is Joachim Messner?
"As a child she had waited. She had waited at school in line for auditions. But the truth was that in the last several years no one had asked her to wait at all. People waited for her."
Who is Roxane Coss?
The two characters that are described as loving television, especially The Story of Maria
Who are Beatriz and President Masuda?
The humanitarian rights group that is referenced as the source of the food, supplies, and other resources that are delivered to the hostages
What is the International Red Cross?
The meaning of garúa
What is a misty fog (or the gray foggy weather that hangs over the house during the first few weeks of the hostage situation)?
"We are not here to kill these people. We are here to take the President and to go."
Who is General Héctor?
"He was from Sweden, or Norway? He talked about how cold it was in the winters but he never really noticed, growing up there. His mother wouldn't let him play any sort of ball games because she was so worried about his hands."
The saint that often Carmen prays to throughout the book
Who is Saint Rose of Lima?
The character that references the line, "if a human soul should dream of me, may he still remember me on awakening", in their explanation for why they chose the opera Rusalka to be performed
Who is Mr. Hosokawa?
The language that Gen Watanabe is initially hired to translate when he first meets Mr. Hosokawa
What is Greek?
"I was wondering if there was time later, if I might play the winner."..."Or the loser."
Who is Ismael?
"But it was the rest from it, the waiting, that made us love the book so madly. I could have had one life but instead I had another because of this book my grandmother protected...What a miracle is that? I was taught to love beautiful things."
Who is Victor Fyodorov?
The role of Tetsuya Kato in the outside world and what he becomes during the hostage situation
What is the vice president of Nansei and later Roxane's pianist?
The composer that Tetsuya Kato loves like a father and feels closest to when playing his music for the first time in the house
Who is Chopin?
The first language of Beatriz and Carmen
What is Quechua (with Spanish being their second language)?
"He says he has the flu. I think he's very nervous."
Who is Roxane Coss?
The city in which Gen is raised by an English and French speaking mother and a Chinese and Russian speaking father
What is Nagano in Japan?
Mr. Hosokawa's age (that he turned at the beginning of the book)
What is fifty-three?
The Peruvian composer that wrote the 2015 opera based on the 2001 book by Ann Patchett
Who is Jimmy López?
The meaning of cuy
What is guinea pig?
"Even when you are locked away you manage to do good work."..."What an honor for me. I will bring them now. I will skip lunch completely."
Manuel (in reference to bringing the sheet music for Father Arguedas)