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A first-person plural dissection of a goose ends a proto-modernist interlude titled for these time periods that begins the second half of The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner. In a novel titled for one of these periods, the casual way a policeman with a scarred cheek tossed an orange (10[1])haunts the protagonist as he drinks brandy in the cat-filled (-5[1])apartment of the journalist Melanie. Anoa (10[1])prophesies “two thousand” of these periods (10[1])in a novel by Ayi Kwei Armah. In a novel (10[1])titled (10[1])for one of these periods, the family of a (-5[1])“lanie (“lah-nee”) history teacher is scandalized (10[1])by a photo of him hugging the widow of his school’s janitor. (-5[1])In that novel titled one of these periods, the Special Branch’s murder of Gordon Ngubene is investigated (10[1])by the Afrikaner (10[2])Ben du (10[1])Toit. (10[5])For 10 points, (10[1])André Brink titled (10[1])a novel (10[1])for a “dry white” sort (10[1])of what (10[1])time period? (10[3])■END■

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