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In a novel in this language, a diminutive, beardless man’s routine is upended when a lookalike soldier visits his tobacco shop to get some film developed. At the end of a novel in this language, a woman at an anti-nuclear protest admits how her father had feared for his pet lizards, reminding an anesthesiologist of the word “ravage.” The Darkroom of Damocles (“DAM-uh-cleez”) was written in this language, as was a novel in which a twelve-year-old is consoled by an unnamed woman in a dark cell. A family is killed and their house is burned down by Nazis when neighbors drag a collaborator’s corpse to Anton’s home in a novel in this language, The Assault. A book in this language remarks, “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” For 10 points, Harry Mulisch (“MOO-lish”) wrote in what language, also used to write The Diary of Anne Frank? ■END■
ANSWER: Dutch [or Nederlands] (The Darkroom of Damocles is by Willem Frederik Hermans.)
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