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Time spent living with her husband José in this transnational region inspired a book of autobiographical “stories” by the Taiwanese writer Sanmao. A linguistics (10[1])professor visiting this region (10[1])has his tongue cut out and is made to dance while wearing a costume made of tin cans in the story “A Distant Episode.” This transnational region is the setting of both a 1980 novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio and a travelogue he wrote with his wife Jémia, The Cloud People. The American woman Kit Moresby becomes the concubine of a local in this region after her husband dies of typhoid in Paul Bowles’s novel The Sheltering Sky. The title character is burned (-5[1])on most of his body after his plane crashes in this region in The English (-5[1])Patient. For 10 points, (-5[1])the oral literature (10[1])of the Berber was spread across what vast desert? ■END■ (10[3])

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