Question
In a novel from this country, Martín Santomé hires a young woman named Laura for his accounting firm, though she later dies from heart failure. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this home country of Mario Benedetti. Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind make up a trilogy from this country consisting of creation myths and jungle stories, The Memory of Fire.
ANSWER: Oriental Republic of Uruguay [or Republica Oriental de Uruguay]
[10e] The author of The Memory of Fire, Eduardo Galeano, also wrote Open Veins of Latin America, for which this Chilean author of The House of the Spirits wrote a foreword.
ANSWER: Isabel Allende
[10m] Uruguayan author Alcira Soust Scaffo, who hid in a bathroom for 15 days, inspired the character of Auxilio Lacouture in this Roberto Bolaño novel about Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima’s search for Cesárea Tinajero.
ANSWER: The Savage Detectives [or Los Detectives Salvajes]
<Noah Sheidlower, World Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |