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RE: ❓Steemit Quiz 2025 - Week 4
Question 13
📚 Literature 📖
Please identify the author and book title from the bullet points below:
- 🚌 leads to unexpected 🎭 & 🎶 connection, but secrecy looms.
- A fleeting misstep ⏳ shatters trust, unleashing control & turmoil.
- 🌍 shifts, old walls fall—change brings both hope & loss.
Jenny Erpenbeck: Kairos
Oh, I'm too late :-)
Wird auch so klappen...
Also hoffentlich, sonst wird's langsam peinlich... Ach, nee, ich bin mir sehr, sehr sicher...
Das darf aber nicht Usus werden. Die Blicke, die ich erntete, als der Wecker piepte...
Womöglich habe ich unterbewusst deinen Wecker gehört... ;-))
✅
Exactly! To the minute... 😎
Maybe if you're the-6yo-gorilla when he decides that 3 is 2. Or rain is snow. Or rainbows are sun 🤣
My alarmclock works... 😜
Okay?! Taht's all? Just "okay"?!
It wasn't okay at all, it was ingenious! Okay, ape?!
⏰… 😎
Question 13 - Hint
Apologies for not replying to attempts, I’m out and about!
That wasn’t the hint, this is : This book has been translated recently to great acclaim.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
👎 The book we're looking for wasn't published in English until a couple of years after the original version.
The House of Gazes by Daniele Mencarelli
👎 You're around the right time period. Although the book being referenced here wasn't published in English until a couple of years after the original version.
Lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura
👎 chriddi's got it
Jenny Erpenbeck: Kairos🤭
It would take a very mean quizmaster not to let chriddi have the point!
She really was the first, it's foolish to argue about it, but now a precedent has been set, please don't forget about it, Mr. Quizmaster
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
👎 We're looking for something more recent and an author's whose native tongue isn't English. The book was translated into English a couple of years after its initial publishing.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck?
👎 Think much more recent...
Daisy Jones & The Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
👎 You're in the right ball park for the original Published Date.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
👎 We're looking more recent than that...
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
👎 We're looking slightly later and the book being referenced here wasn't published in English until a couple of years after the original version.
Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
👎 The original author's native tongue wasn't English and the book was translated a couple of years after its initial release.
Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
👎 This book is more recent and the book being referenced here wasn't published in English until a couple of years after the original version.
The Island by Ragnar Jónasson
👎 chriddi was correct.