乙女の密告

In November 2009, Professor Bachmann, a peculiar teacher who prizes Japanese-style grit, bursts into a class at a Kyoto university of foreign languages to set the text for January's German speech contest: Anne Frank's diary entry for 9 April 1944, the night the police nearly found the hiding place. The 'maidens' he has sorted into rival cliques drill early and late. Mikako admires the poised top student Reiko, who leads the night practice, until word spreads that Reiko has done something unbecoming with the professor. As Mikako struggles over the passage she always forgets, she begins to hear in Anne's words a cry she missed as a girl.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

121 pages in the original

Set in

Japan, 2009

First published

2010 by Shinchosha

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9784103276616 (original)

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