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In a novel titled for this place, a translator of Ole Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth takes in the family of his son, who became a suicide bomber. While visiting a grandfather who rubs prayer beads, a character in a novel partly titled for this place listens to a widow with eight former husbands criticize a nearly seventy-year-old man for remarrying. In a novel partly titled for this place, the narrator fails to burn a secret library with an English fireplace (15[1])after learning of a murder-suicide caused by a forced marriage. A character in a novel titled for this place lectures on (*) Abu Nuwas at Oxford and claims “Othello was a lie.” The narrator of a novel partly titled for this place decides not to drown himself in the Nile unlike a benefactor, who murders his wife Jean Morris while studying in England. For 10 points, what place partly names a Tayeb Salih novel about a “Season of Migration”? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: the north [accept Season of Migration to the North; accept North of Dawn]
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