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  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448129058
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 26

Field Study (Storycuts)



A student abroad in a post-Commmunist country notices the people's bitterness about the empty promises of their abandoned ideology.

Martin is a graduate student spending a week undertaking scientific field study in a neighbouring, post-Communist country. He sees a residual bitterness among the town's people about the empty promises of an abandoned ideology. Will he allow this bitterness to flavour his own work?

Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Field Study.

  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448129058
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 26

About the author

Rachel Seiffert

The daughter of an Australian father and a German mother, Rachel Seiffert was born in Oxford and later moved to London. Her novel The Dark Room was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has also written an acclaimed collection of short stories, Field Study.

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