Question
The protagonist of this series becomes a journalist after he marries the Chinese activist Mei, who dies of malaria in the novel Footsteps. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this series whose first novel describes the protagonist’s courtship of Annelies (“ah-nuh-LEESE”), and the subsequent invalidation of their marriage due to her illegitimacy as a concubine’s mixed-race daughter.
ANSWER: Buru Quartet [or Buru Tetralogy or Tetralogi Buru] (Pramoedya Ananta Toer wrote the series, whose first novel is This Earth of Mankind.)
[10m] The protagonist of the Buru Quartet is compared to this author for being a well-educated rebel. This author created the mestizo Crisóstomo Ibarra and his lover, María Clara.
ANSWER: José Rizal (“ree-SAHL”) [or José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda]
[10e] Soldiers in the Indonesian National Revolution often recited Rizal’s “My Last Farewell,” a poem written before his execution in this manner. Colonel Buendía (“bwen-DEE-ah”) faces this manner of execution at the start of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
ANSWER: execution by firing squad [accept being shot or killed with guns or similar descriptions] (Gabriel García Márquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.)
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