In a novel from this country, a priest is blackmailed into making payments to Harelip and her blind and deaf mother. The video game Mother 3 borrows the names of Claus and Lucas from conniving twins in a trilogy of novels by an author who was born in this country that begins with The Notebook. The protagonist of a novel from this country is taken to a lice-ridden hospital after getting an infected knee; after returning home, he claims that if the title concept exists, then “there is no freedom.” In another novel from this country, the life of the young Jewish girl Eva is saved by her housekeeper Emerence. The narrator tells Dr. Oblath why he refuses to have children in a novel from this home country of the author of The Door. Another author from this country drew on his experience in a concentration camp to write Kaddish for an Unborn Child and Fatelessness. For 10 points, name this home country of Magda Szabó (“MOG-dah SAH-bo”) and Imre Kertész ■END■
ANSWER: Hungary [or Magyarország; accept Hungarian People’s Republic or Magyar Népköztársaság; accept Kingdom of Hungary or Magyar Királyság; prompt on Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie, or Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia] (Ágota Kristóf wrote the trilogy in the second sentence.)
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