Round 12: Tossup 11

An author from this country interspersed personal diary entries in a fictional narrative about a port city titled for two viewpoints of a fox. In a novel from this country, one character has his business burnt down after he abducts a woman who had earlier had her eyes and tongue pecked out by vultures. That novel from this country (10[1])is split between sections “in the desert” and “in the jungle” and was inspired by a brothel near the author’s childhood town. (10[1])The question “At what point did [this country] fuck itself up” opens a novel consisting of an interview between Ambrosio and Santiago Zamala. An author from this country wrote a novel about a writer of telenovelas at the radio station Panamericana. For 10 points, name this home country of the author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa. ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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