text: In a novel set in this country, a blue-painted thief escapes from prison and later helps Patrick Lewis blow up a filtration plant.
full_question: In a novel set in this country, a blue-painted thief escapes from prison and later helps Patrick Lewis blow up a filtration plant. An author from this country wrote a novel whose protagonist moves to Slocan with the title character and her uncle Isamu after her mother is disfigured in the bombing of Nagasaki. This country is the setting of In the Skin of a Lion, whose characters Caravaggio and Hana reappear in a novel whose title character reminisces about (*) Katherine Clifton. A Sri Lankan author who lives in this country wrote a novel about the burned Count Laszlo de Almasy that won its Governor General's Award. For 10 points, name this country home to the author of Obasan, Joy Kogawa, and The English Patient author Michael Ondaatje, both of whom live in Toronto.
first_sentence: In a novel set in this country, a blue-painted thief escapes from prison and later helps Patrick Lewis blow up a filtration plant.
raw_answer: Canada