
Ben Marcus Reads Kazuo Ishiguro
The New Yorker: Fiction
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A Village After Dark by Kazuro Ishiguro
Kazuro Ishiguro's A Village After Dark appeared in the magazine in 2001. The story is set in a traditional English village with these stone cottages and narrow streets. Then it's a strangely mutating place with a little Alice in Wonderland to it. Ben Marcus: Is this science fiction? Is it a dreamscape? Is it an allegory?
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