literature featuring countries

can you name the country that plays a significant role in these literary works?
this isn't just where the stories are set (though many are set there); the country/nationality has to play a prominent role or be the work's focus
constituent countries, as well as sovereign nations, are included
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title
type
author
year
country
Macbeth
play
William Shakespeare
1623
Scotland
Dead Souls
novel
Nikolai Gogol
1842
Russia
The Three Musketeers
novel
Alexandre Duma
1844
France
Peer Gynt
play
Henrik Ibsen
1867
Norway
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
novel
James Joyce
1916
Ireland
All Quiet on the Western Front
novel
Erich Maria Remarque
1929
Germany
The Stranger
novel
Albert Camus
1942
French Algeria
Things Fall Apart
novel
Chinua Achebe
1958
Nigeria
One Hundred Years of Solitude
novel
Gabriel García Márquez
1967
Colombia
Midnight's Children
novel
Salman Rushdie
1981
India
Beloved
novel
Toni Morrison
1987
The United States of America
Persepolis
graphic novel
Marjane Satrapi
2003
Iran
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
novel
Milan Kundera
1984
Czechoslovakia
The Kite Runner
novel
Khaled Hosseini
2003
Afghanistan
Pachinko
novel
Min Jin Lee
2017
Japan
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