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Edition 42 (1962)

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Katherine Anne Porter きゃさりん・あん・ぽーたー Winner

A short story in which a young woman on holiday senses the unease beneath a German farm family’s ordinary surface. Its quiet style lets the pressure of a closed family world emerge gradually.

An ordinary visit slowly reveals the family’s buried unease.

512 pages
short fictionfamilyuneaseholiday