Madame Hortense dies at the end of, for 10 points, what masterwork of Nikos Kazantzakis?
In this novel, a grandfather tells his son that it is a sin to prefer one dish to another because "there are people who are hungry." This novel's narrator compares his "internal no" and "the void" with the Buddha, which he studies about just as the title character compares the Virgin Mary to the object of his affection. That woman spends the night with the narrator and causes a jealous suitor to drown himself in the ocean, leading to her own stoning. The title character often dances and plays his santuri, which he uses to entertain and persuade several monks into letting him use the (*) timber from their forest. The murder of the Widow occurs just before an aged hotel-owning harlot marries the title character, who had first met the narrator at a cafe in Piraeus and serves under him as an employee of a lignite mine in Crete. Madame Hortense dies at the end of, for 10 points, what masterwork of Nikos Kazantzakis?
In this novel, a grandfather tells his son that it is a sin to prefer one dish to another because "there are people who are hungry."
{Zorba} the {Greek} [or {Life} and {Adventures} of {Alexis Zorbas}]