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. In a novel partly titled for this place, the narrator fails to burn a secret library with an English fireplace (-5[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 (10[1])and claims (10[1])“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”? ■END■ (10[3])

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
Adil HaiderThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit80-5
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up10510
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country10710
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha15910
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers15910
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange15910

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%102.67
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