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Brodeck has returned to his village after two years in a WWII concentration camp and is never fully accepted as member of the townsfolk. When a nameless foreigner comes to visit and is murdered by the pillars of the community, Brodeck is asked to write the official report. What follows is supposed to be an examination of xenophobia, but since this is less a novel and more an allegorical fable, that vital psychological insight is missing. People act out of fear and self-preservation, and we know
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