它有特定的文体特征：它是新闻和文学之间的边缘文体，篇幅短，时间跨度小，少历时性叙述；
This kind of novel has its unique literary features: it is an edge style between journalism and literature;
这本书能进入这份名单，我怀疑某种程度上是因为我们的老师认为它篇幅够短，至少能鼓励我们从经典漫画书边走开一会儿。
I suspect it got on the required list in part because our teachers thought it was short enough to at least encourage us not to reach for the Classic Comic Book.
针对女性的其他罪行在篇幅上则显得出奇的短，例如作者在描述涅德曼谋杀两位俄罗斯女孩时只用了四行文字。
Other crimes against women get curiously brief coverage. Niedermann's murder of the two Russian girls takes only four lines.
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