This author remarked in her cookbook dedicated to aphrodisiacs that Lucrezia Borgia’s “fame as a poisoner has unjustly clouded her talents as a great hostess.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses, who wrote a novel in which Clara del Valle becomes mute after her sister Rosa the Beautiful dies by poisoning.
ANSWER: Isabel Allende [or Isabel Angélica Allende Llona]
[10h] This novel’s narrator cares for the pathologically hungry boy Mauro amid an environmental disaster called the “red wind.” Characters in this 2020 Fernanda Trías novel eat a processed, ammonia-laced product called “Meatrite.”
ANSWER: Pink Slime [or Mugre rosa]
[10m] This native of Coronel Pringles wrote novels like La prueba in both McDonald’s and the burger chain Pumper Nic. A child is poisoned by a cyanide-laced ice cream cone in this author’s novel How I Became a Nun.
ANSWER: César Aira
<S, World Literature>