A dramatist satirized this modern-day country’s response to a military victory by depicting its aftermath in a cabaret-style musical entitled You, Me, and the Next War. A novel from this country is composed of two parallel storylines about a girl who is kidnapped for busking on the street and a boy who finds the busker’s dog and resolves to find its owner. An author from this country wrote the novel Someone to Run With, as well as a novel about a comedian who counts the number of people who leave during his increasingly unhinged stand-up routine. Another author from this modern-day country wrote a memoir about his mother Fania’s death and his literary mentor Zelda. A Tale of Love and Darkness is by a writer from this country, who described Hannah’s disintegrating marriage in his novel My Michael. For 10 points, name this home country of David Grossman and Amos Oz (“ah-MOSE OHZ”), who wrote in Hebrew. ■END■
ANSWER: Israel [or State of Israel; or Medīnat Yīsrā’ēl; or Dawlat Isrā’īl; reject “Palestine”] (The dramatist in the first sentence is Hanoch Levin.)
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