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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. (-5[1])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. (10[4])The narrator tells Dr. Oblath why he refuses (10[1])to have children in a novel from this home country of the author of The Door. (10[3]-5[1])Another (10[3]-5[1])author (10[2])from this country drew on his experience in a concentration camp (-5[2])to write Kaddish for an Unborn (10[1])Child and Fatelessness. (10[1])For 10 points, name this home country of Magda (10[1])Szabó (“MOG-dah SAH-bo”) and Imre Kertész (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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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Ashish SubramanianDuke AFlorida B54-5
Ricky LiMIT AMichigan A10910
Mitch McCullarIllinois AChicago C10910
Tim MorrisonStanford ANorthwestern A10910
Tracy MirkinFlorida AYale B10910
Anson BernsBrown ACornell B11710
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AUC Berkeley A13310
Daniel SheinbergYale AMcGill A13310
Mazin OmerHarvard AMinnesota A133-5
Enoch YuenImperial AVirginia A13310
John MarvinChicago BNorth Carolina A13410
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AColumbia B13410
Caleb KendrickMaryland ARutgers A13410
Jisoo YooTexas ARutgers B134-5
Halle FriedmanNYU AMinnesota B13510
Clark SmithOhio State AColumbia A13510
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BClaremont A146-5
Ani PerumallaPenn State AGeorgia Tech A146-5
Alex PijanowskiPurdue ASouth Carolina A15210
Neal JoshiWUSTL BUC Berkeley B15510
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech APenn State A16410
Joel MilesMinnesota AHarvard A16810
Tanis NielsenClaremont AGeorgia Tech B1690
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BDuke A16910
John BroussardHouston APenn A16910
Lexi TermanRutgers BTexas A1690