This country is home to the authors of Embers and The Melancholy of Resistance.
In a novel from this modern-day nation, a relative of Chopin home from Singapore calls the tropics a "disease" with no cure and recalls how 4000 Malaysian workers spontaneously went on strike one day at noon. In that novel from this country, the General asks what his wife Kristina meant when she muttered "Coward" outside his friend's room. In another novel from this country, The Prince leads a mob against a town visited by a traveling circus showcasing the stuffed body of the world's largest whale. An author from this country, whose history is the subject of the tome Parallel Stories, wrote a novella in which The General reunites with his friend Konrad to discuss the day Konrad tried to kill him hunting. This country is home to the authors of Embers and The Melancholy of Resistance. For 10 points, name this home to Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Sandor Marai, the latter of whom recalled its former union with Austria.
In a novel from this modern-day nation, a relative of Chopin home from Singapore calls the tropics a "disease" with no cure and recalls how 4000 Malaysian workers spontaneously went on strike one day at noon.
Hungary [or Magyarorszag]