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 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”? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Natan Holtzman | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 111 | 10 |
Steven Yuan | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 126 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | UBC | 145 | 10 |