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In a Booker-winning novel told in the second-person, a photojournalist murdered in this country’s civil war is given “seven moons” to roam the In Between. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country whose civil war also provides the setting of a novel in which a forensic anthropologist investigates the skeleton of a man nicknamed Sailor.
ANSWER: Sri Lanka [or Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka or Shri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajavadi Janarajaya or Ilangai Jananāyaka Sōshalisak Kuḍiyarasu; accept Ceylon] (The first novel is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka.)
[10e] This author, who set Anil’s Ghost in his native country of Sri Lanka, wrote about László de Almásy (“AHL-mah-shee”) in The English Patient.
ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje (“on-DAH-chee”) [or Philip Michael Ondaatje]
[10h] Shyam (“shee-YAHM”) Selvadurai, who championed fiction about the civil war through his Write to Reconcile project, wrote this 1994 novel that depicts the conflict through the eyes of the adolescent homosexual boy Arjie.
ANSWER: Funny Boy
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Arizona StateUC Berkeley A1010020ME
Chicago BRutgers1010020ME
Columbia AMichigan010010E
Cornell AHarvard10101030MEH
FloridaCornell B010010E
IndianaIllinois B010010E
MITYale1010020ME
MinnesotaChicago A1010020ME
NYUVirginia1010020ME
North Carolina AVanderbilt1010020ME
Ohio StateStanford10101030MEH
OttawaMaryland1010020ME
RITPenn State010010E
TexasColumbia B1010020ME
Toronto ANorth Carolina B10101030MEH
Toronto BWUSTL B1010020ME
Toronto CIllinois A1010020ME
UC Berkeley BGeorgia State1010020ME
UCFVirginia Tech1010020ME
WUSTL AIowa State1010020ME
Waterloo ALSE1010020ME
Winona StateBritish Columbia010010E

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2025 ACF NationalsYes2219.09100%77%14%