Question
This author’s novel Paradais is set in a gated community in Veracruz, where the incel Franco lives. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Mexican author who wrote about the murder of a woman known as the Witch of La Matosa in the novel Hurricane Season.
ANSWER: Fernanda Melchor
[10e] A journalist by training, Melchor originally conceived Hurricane Season as an investigative nonfiction novel similar to this book about the murders of the Clutter family.
ANSWER: In Cold Blood (by Truman Capote)
[10m] Before In Cold Blood, an author from this country depicted extrajudicial murders in the nonfiction novel Operation Massacre. Outlaws like “The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan” and “The Widow Ching – Pirate” appear in another book from this country.
ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina] (The book is A Universal History of Infamy by Borges.)
<Will Nediger, World Literature>
Summary
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| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
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| Quasicrystal Silence | Team Name Think Detail | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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