Another Man's City NonfictionFrom mundane and quotidian events, Choe In Ho steadily builds an unreal and uncanny edificea virtual world reminiscent of Kafka or Orwell, with echoes of The Truman Show and of Kazuo Ishiguros The Unconsoled. Through a series of seemingly minor juxtapositions of the familiar and the strange, K, the protagonist of Another Mans City, gradually realizes he is inside a Matrix like reality, populated by shape shifting characters, and is living a virtual
his points of origin and return" - Robert Creeley
From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head
and prosperity to an oppressed people
"It is we who are Hamlet"
into death and oblivion
"a superweapon if you will
in that it turns into an unbound celebration of deviancy at its most explicit and imaginative" – The Guardian
and the slippery personal and political terrain between friend and enemies
aerial bombing
and sensual detail
Clayton McKee is a PhD student in Comparative literature at UCLA
in Savannah