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In a novel from this country, Rengganis enters her classroom naked while shouting about being assaulted by a dog in the school toilet. In another novel from this country, the one-legged artist Jean Marais (10[1])(“mah-RAY”) helps the protagonist avoid an obese hitman nicknamed Fatso. (-5[1])A magical realist novel from this country focusing on a prostitute who returns from the dead is titled Beauty is a Wound. (10[5])A novel from this country about the native boy Minke’s (10[1])love for the mixed-race concubine’s (10[2])daughter Annelies was dictated by its author from prison. This modern-day (-5[1])country is the setting of This Earth of Mankind (10[1])and (-5[1])a novel (10[1])about the coffee (10[1])trader Max Havelaar. (10[10]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[2])what country is the birthplace of authors Eka Kurniawan and Pramoedya (10[2])Ananta (10[2])Toer (10[1]-5[1])(“pra-MOOD-yah ah-nahn-tah TOOR”), whose characters speak Dutch, (10[1])Malay, (10[2])and (-5[1])Javanese? (10[8])■END■ (10[23]0[2])

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