The Ten Commandments theme the sections of a novel from this country, Living Tissue, 10x10, which ends during the so-called “Twitter Revolution” of 2009. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this modern-day country where a contemporary author wrote about attempting to arrange furniture in cramped socialist apartments at the opening of his novel Before Brezhnev Died.
ANSWER: Moldova
[10e] Iulian Ciocan’s (“YOO-lee-ahn CHO-kanz”) Before Brezhnev Died and Emilian Galaicu-Paun’s Living Tissue, 10 x 10 were written in this language. This language was used to write the novel Solenoid, a surprise 2022 success in English.
ANSWER: Romanian [ or Roumanian or limba română or românește] (Solenoid is by Mircea Cărtărescu.)
[10m] Another recent international success in southeastern European literature was this first Bulgarian winner of the International Booker Prize. In this Georgi Gospodinov novel, an Alzheimer’s clinic features floors each themed around past decades.
ANSWER: Time Shelter [or Vremeubezhishte]
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