Question

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. (15[1])In a novel partly titled for this place, the narrator fails to burn a secret library with an English fireplace 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 (10[1])claims “Othello was a lie.” (10[1])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 (10[2])about a “Season of Migration”? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: the north [accept Season of Migration to the North; accept North of Dawn]
<Literature - World Literature - Long Fiction>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew WangBHSU ReFantazioBHSU Rebirth6015
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Music to Help You Stop Smoking10610
Michael HundiingWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?WashU11110
Yashwanth BajjiClown SquadNotre Dame15310
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofClown Senpais15310
Liam StarnesThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysNortheast by Northwestern15910

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%102.67
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%20%137.80
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%17%0%123.67
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%33%33%120.67
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%33%0%105.33