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A novel (emphasize) about this author describes his “tacit agreements” with his wife not to “put domestic happiness in jeopardy.” A novella by this author ends by praising the “bourgeois love” for “the happy, lovely, and commonplace.” This author’s half-Brazilian parentage inspired the family of a character who is mistaken for a criminal when he returns to his (10[1])hometown without his papers, and who sees his two childhood loves dancing together at a Danish resort. This European author’s (10[1])life is fictionalized in Colm Tóibín’s (“CALL-um toh-BEAN’s”) novel The (10[3])Magician. Hanno dies of typhoid in a novel by this author about the collapse of a Lübeck grain merchant (10[1])family. For 10 points, the semi-autobiographical Tonio Kröger and Buddenbrooks are (10[1])by what German author who wrote about Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain? (0[2])■END■

ANSWER: Thomas Mann [or Paul Thomas Mann]
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