text: An author from this country wrote about how his father styled himself a “poliatrist,” or healer of the city, in his book Oblivion: A Memoir.
full_question: An author from this country wrote about how his father styled himself a “poliatrist,” or healer of the city, in his book Oblivion: A Memoir. A collection set in this birthplace of Hector Abad includes “Artificial Roses,” “Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon,” and a story in which an officer waiting for a pension check does not sell his dead son’s prized cockfighting rooster. In a novella from this country, two brothers stab Santiago Nasar to death. For 10 points, name this birthplace of the author of No One Writes to the Colonel and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
first_sentence: An author from this country wrote about how his father styled himself a “poliatrist,” or healer of the city, in his book Oblivion: A Memoir.