1 of 5 Orhan Pamuk’s 2009 novel The Museum of Innocence, takes place in the 1970s and 1980s and is about a wealthy man’s intense romantic love for a young woman who works in a shop. The book is set in this city, which is situated on a peninsula between Europe and Asia and was once the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Where might that be?
Athens
Budapest
Bucharest
Istanbul
2 of 5 In Caramelo, a 2002 novel by Sandra Cisneros, a girl and her family make a pilgrimage every summer from Chicago to visit her grandparents at their home in another city. Which city do they visit? (Random hint: It was the site of the first university on the North American mainland.)
Boston
Mexico City
St. Augustine, Fla.
Québec City
3 of 5 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel Americanah jumps back and forth in time between the protagonist Ifemelu’s present life in New Jersey and her school days in a large city within Africa’s most populated country. Where?
Cairo, Egypt
Lagos, Nigeria
Accra, Ghana
Nairobi, Kenya
4 of 5 While New York City is the primary setting for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two cousins and their career in comics, significant scenes in the first section of the book take place in this European city, which was invaded by the Nazis in the spring of 1939. Where was this?
Warsaw
Amsterdam
Prague
Paris
5 of 5 The Valley of Amazement, Amy Tan’s 2013 novel about mother-daughter relationships, takes place across four decades and two continents. The book opens toward the end of the Qing dynasty in this busy port on the East China Sea. Which city is it?
Shanghai
Beijing
Chongqing
Hong Kong
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