Question: In what year was the author of the 1997 novel "The Moon and the Sun" born?
Sentence (from "The Hundred Brothers"): The substance of the novel consists of the nocturnal reunion of one hundred brothers in the library of their ancestral home, as they attempt to locate and inter the ashes of their deceased father, an insane monarch, drink heavily, and manifest a variety of mildly homicidal sibling rivalries.
Relevant evidence: No