Another Man's City
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"Another Man's City "is structured as a virtual-reality narrative manipulated by an entity referred to variously as the Invisible Hand or Big Brother. The scenario is reminiscent of Peter Weir's 1998 film "The Truman Show" and Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "The Unconsoled." The novel begins with a series of seemingly minor juxtapositions of the familiar and the strange, as a result of which the protagonist, K, gradually finds himself inside a Matrix-like reality populated with shape-shifting characters.
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13 primary books#15 in Library of Korean Literature
Library of Korean Literature is a 13-book series with 13 released primary works first released in 1960 with contributions by Kim Joo-Young, Jung Mi-Kyung, and Jung Young-Moon.
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I'm torn about this. It's well-written, it's interesting, but I can't help but feel that I've read it all before. A middle-aged middle-class family man suddenly feels like nothing around him is real, and there are women trying to seduce him, and men cross-dressing, and they all appear to be a handful of people taking on different roles. It's not bad– it's a competent story that raises salient questions about reality. On the other hand, it's been written before and it's been written better.
I can't pan it across the board, but I also can't think of anyone I'd recommend it to.
