A Maiden's Betrayal

Akiko Akazome · 2010 CE · Short Story · Japanese · Contemporary

Students at a foreign-languages college in Kyoto rehearse a recitation of Anne Frank's diary in German for a speech contest. Their school and teachers pressure them as they practise. It won the Akutagawa Prize and has not been translated.

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