Round 400: Tossup 7

In a novel set in this country, a radio station employee makes his girlfriend listen to long, abusive tape recordings as punishment for cheating on him with a fellow theater intern. While living in this country, an author wrote a novel whose cursed narrator watches Eumelos manipulate Priam into launching the Trojan War. In a 1963 novel that Willem Frederik Hermans held to be plagiarized, one of this country’s (*) tribunals mistakenly identifies a Jewish security chief as a traitor. A teenager dates a married, middle-aged writer as this country collapses in the 2021 novel Kairos. In a spy novel, a British agent pretends to defect to this country as part of a “Circus” operation run by George Smiley. For 10 (0[2])points, Alec Leamas is shot by what Soviet satellite’s secret police in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold? (10[1])■END■

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