Packet 8: Tossup 2

An author from this country depicted a house decorated by a professional funeral mourner in his novel Ways of Dying. In this home country of Zakes Mda, a character calls her (15[1])friend Baasie and discovers her father (15[3])Lionel (15[1])was imprisoned for being a (15[1])Communist. The Smales family flees a war (15[1])in this country in a novel (15[1])that ends as a servant (15[1])who was working on a (*) bakkie truck approaches a helicopter. (10[1]-5[2])In a novel set (10[1])in this (10[1])country, Stephen Kumalo discovers (10[1])his son Absalom is on trial for murdering the activist (10[1])Arthur Jarvis. For 10 points, Nadine Gordimer and Alan Paton are from what country, where Long Walk to Freedom was written (10[1])by Nelson Mandela? (10[3])■END■ (10[7]0[2])

ANSWER: South Africa [or Republic of South Africa]
<Long Fiction — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 8
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Rube Goldberg XIX11/20/20251694%25%6%88.40
SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS11/20/20255100%80%20%50.80
SPOOKY IX11/20/20255100%20%0%89.80