An author from this count
An author from this country created a protagonist who eats matches after her lover dies while having sex. A novel set in this country is named for a man who continuously carries a copy of Don Quixote; that title character is bludgeoned to death, buried, and then uninterred so that he can be properly killed by a firing squad. A novelist from here created a character who fell in love with Susana San Juan and ventures to the entirely dead town of Comala. A "novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances and home remedies" that is set in this country centers on Tita de la Garza and is titled Like Water for Chocolate. Harriet Winslow requests the dead body of Ambrose Bierce in a novel that is set here. For 10 points, name this home country of Laura Esquivel and the author of The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes.
An author from this country created a protagonist who eats matches after her lover dies while having sex.
Mexico