Here you can find your Halloween required reading "A village after dark", a short story by the Nobel-Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro.
In
this unsettling short story, a man returns to the village where he spent his
youth. Rich with ambiguity, the text explores the uneasy relationship between
the past and the present.
Ben Marcus reads Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Village After Dark," and discusses it with
The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "A Village After
Dark" was published in the May 21, 2001, issue of The New Yorker.
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?
What are his best books?
Ishiguro’s
novels are mostly first-person, and mostly told by an unreliable narrator. They
tend to revolve around a single traumatic idea that the narrator is not
entirely capable of confronting head-on.
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