Round 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[2])Lionel (15[1])was imprisoned for being a Communist. The Smales family flees a war in this country in a novel that ends as a servant who was working on a (*) bakkie truck approaches a helicopter. (-5[1])In a novel set in this country, Stephen Kumalo discovers his son Absalom is on trial for murdering the activist Arthur Jarvis. For 10 points, Nadine Gordimer and Alan Paton are from what country, where Long Walk to Freedom was written by Nelson Mandela? ■END■ (10[1])

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