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In a novel from this country, a brickmaker who speaks telepathically to elephants is charged with burning her mother’s theater. While in the Vatican, a character from this country buys a rosewood rosary to honor a promise to do so if she ever visited the smallest country. In a novel from this country, a woman recalls her son’s nightmare about a two-handed white bird that said “I’m your mum.” A novel from this country partially written in second-person follows a family as they search for their (*) mother after losing her in a train station, titled Please Look After Mom. (10[1])In a novel from this country, a woman who refuses to wear bras slits her wrist with a kitchen knife, then flees from a hospital. A video artist paints flowers on the body of a character from this country after learning about her “Mongolian mark.” For 10 points, the author of The Vegetarian, Han Kang, is from what country? ■END■

ANSWER: South Korea [or the Republic of Korea; prompt on Korea] (Please Look After Mom is by Shin Kyung-sook. The unnamed novel is Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan.)
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