Question

In a novel titled for this place, a translator of Ole Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth takes in the family of his son, who became a suicide bomber. While visiting a grandfather who rubs prayer beads, a character in a novel partly titled for this place listens to a widow with eight former husbands criticize a nearly seventy-year-old man for remarrying. In a novel partly titled for this place, the narrator fails to burn a secret library with an English fireplace (15[1])after learning of a murder-suicide caused by a forced marriage. A character in a novel titled for this place lectures on (*) Abu Nuwas at Oxford and claims “Othello was a lie.” (10[1])The narrator of a novel partly titled for this place decides not to drown himself (10[1])in the Nile unlike a benefactor, who murders his wife Jean Morris while studying in England. For 10 points, (10[1])what place partly names a Tayeb Salih novel about a “Season of Migration”? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: the north [accept Season of Migration to the North; accept North of Dawn]
<Literature - World Literature - Long Fiction>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jordan Brownstein"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question broBanned from ARGOS8015
Natan Holtzmanthrow away your cards, rally in the streetsAw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms11110
Steven YuanCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire12610
Joel MilesThompson et al.UBC14510
Walter ZhangImport PandasHu up Jinning they Tao15810
Adam Silverman|madam|Pahkin' the Ahgo15910

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