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"Another Mans 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 Weirs 1998 film "The Truman Show" and Kazuo Ishiguros 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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• Published on: 2014-10-14
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 190 pages

Review

This novel is a symbolic protest against the arrogantly mundane approach of the strain of realism that, cloaked in the guise of humanism, has dominated modern Korean fiction. Choi challenges us to consider new possibilities for literature in an age when the divine is largely absent from literary art.

(Professor Kwon Youngmin Munhak sasang)

This lightly Kafkaesque fable from a South Korean writer presents a man who suddenly finds his world not quite right in increasingly strange ways... There is a lot of charm to [Choes] anxious novel, as if Thurber and Orwell had gotten together for a skull session.

(Kirkus Review)

An intriguing examination of contemporary life and identity -- the roles we play and the ones forced on us -- that allows for myriad interpretations.

(Complete Review)

About the Author
Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of contemporary Korean fiction, including Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-w?n and The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui, both published by University of Hawaii Press. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia.

Ju-Chan Fulton is, with Bruce Fulton, the cotranslator of The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui and Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-won.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A very accessible, very serious book
By John Armstrong
The protagonist-narrator, who we know only as K, is awakened by his alarm clock Saturday morning and notices (starting with the clock itself, which shouldnt have gone off on a weekend day), that things arent quite right. He remembers that he was out after work last night but cant remember what he did, and he also remembers that after he came home and joined his wife in their weekly "party" things did not go their usual enjoyable and satisfying way. He discovers that he has lost his cellphone, and decides to call it in the hope that someone has it and will pick up and talk to him. He lets it ring a number of times and gets no answer. But a minute later he gets a call from a number he recognizes as his own. The man on the phone seems friendly enough, and he arranges to meet him and get his phone back.

So the adventure begins. Ks goal is to find out what happened on Friday night, where he went, who he was with, what he did, with the hope that once he does his life will get back to normal. In the course of the weekend he has significant encounters with a number of people, some of whom he knows, or knew, and some who are new to him. They include:

- H, Ks therapist friend who spends equal time advising K and complaining bitterly about his own gold-digging secretary mistress and his cheating wife,

- P, Ks sisters ex-husband, who lives a double life as a university professor and a glamorous crossdresser,

- Ks sister KS, who was once a successful actress and now lives a sad and lonely life devoted mostly to eating,

- Sailor Moon, that is, a barely legal prostitute who cosplays Sailor Moon in a sex parlor catering to men who want to grope schoolgirls, and finally

- Rocket, a petty gangster, pimp, and failed husband and father who has no illusions about his sorry existence.

As K travels around Seoul going from clue to clue and encounter to encounter he becomes more and more aware of the presence of "familiar" people, that is, people who logically have to be completely different and yet are unmistakably the same. These include a youngish man who seems to be facilitating him in various ways (for example driving him home when hes had too much to drink), an older man who tends to appear as one family in-law or another (for example his sisters second husband), and a mysterious woman who, in her various guises, seems always to be sexually taunting him.

In time his sense of something being not right gives way to a full-out paranoid belief that these "familiar" people who recur in different roles are agents in service of an unseen power that is controlling his life and everything he does. (Note that the original Korean title of the book is Nannigeun taindeului toshi which translates to City of Familiar Strangers.) His feeling toward this unseen power is complex but basically accepting, and his mission becomes, not to defeat it, escape it or even understand it, but simply to go where it is taking him and see what happens on the way.

The easy writing style and genre-fiction plot make for a very accessible book. But this does not mean that the book is not serious. The author, Choe In-ho (alternatively Romanized Choi In-Ho), was extremely popular in Korea and had great "reach". He was also dying of cancer as we wrote this book. He knew it was going to be his last book and, as he said himself, he wanted it to be the book he was remembered by. So, what did he want to do with it?

Choe was a life-long Catholic and religion was important to him. It is only natural that, as he faced his own death, he would examine his faith and come to terms with it one way or another. This is really what the book is about. One long scene towards the end of the book, the scene in the church, is most of all about this, but at some level the whole book is about it. You dont have to be a Catholic or even religious to get what he is saying, you just have to have a basic openness to the universal question of the meaning of life (and of death).

It is not coincidental that sex plays a very big part in the book. Really, just about everything that happens from the beginning to the end involves sex in one way or another. It is not gratuitous, it is not graphic, it is not salacious. But it is there. In many flavors, ranging from the most wholesome imaginable (a man who loves to make love to his wife and has zero desire to have sex with anyone else) to the most taboo (incest) with many steps in between.

But sex in this book is not just sex, it is an act which, whatever exact form it takes, is infused with meaning that goes beyond the act itself. The archetype for K, good Catholic that he is, is Adam and Eve. Their story is rich in meaning, but for K the central idea is that of the Tree of Good and Evil. Adam and Eve ate the fruit of this tree, which was forbidden to them (this act is universally taken to be sexual intercourse), and in so doing committed the first sin. They lost eternal life but gained the freedom to do both good and evil, and this freedom has been passed on to every human being. For K this means that there are two parts to every person, the part that does good and the part that does evil. When the two parts become alienated from each other the person effectively splits in half. And yet the parts yearn to be reunited, and performing the act of eating the fruit (i.e. sex) allows them to experience, at least for a moment, their original pre-split state. It is really a kind of sacrament - it has been called the Hieros Gammos or Sacred Marriage - and K clearly feels it as such.

One last thing. In Another Mans City is cast in the form of popular genre fiction (a kind of sci-fi/fantasy), and readers tend to connect the book with other works in the same category or a related one. The blurb on the back of the Dalkey Archive Press edition mentions, among others, Orwell, the Matrix, and the Truman Show. All these works share the idea that peoples lives are controlled by some external force, whether its Big Brother (or rather the pols behind Big Brother) in 1984 or the TV network in Truman or the machines in Matrix. But these connections, obvious as they seem, ignore the question of why the control is happening and to what end (if any). Big Brothers control is for political totalitarianism. The Matrixs control is for economic exploitation. The Truman Shows is for entertainment of an audience. What is purpose or goal of the external control that K feels?

The author answers this question and he answers it within a framework of religion, and particularly Catholicism. But although Catholicism was unquestionably his "primary" religion, it is not the only religion which had meaning for him. The other is Buddhism, and I could not help but feel that it too was present in the book, if only in a latent way. My own reading of the book, for what it is worth, is that Ks Matrix is at heart the shimmering illusion of the Floating World, that which controls him is the endless turning of the Wheel of Life, and the final goal is Nirvana.

For me Choe In-hos last book was a very enjoyable read and a deeply moving one. I know that not everyone will have the same experience, but still I give it a full 5 stars.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A Little Confusion Goes a Long Way
By Tonys Reading List
Ch’oe Inho’s Another Man’s City (translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton) is an intriguing story set over the course of a weekend. Businessman K is rudely woken by his alarm clock at seven o’clock in the morning, dutifully crawling out of bed. That’s not unusual in itself, except for the fact that it’s Saturday – so why was it set? As the morning progresses, he notices a few other odd details and begins to wonder what’s going on:

“K lifted the toilet seat and sat. Not for the usual reason, but because he needed to make sense of what was going on. Something was messed up. It had started at seven, when the alarm came on. It had come on by itself – nobody had set it. And then, for the first time in his fifteen years of married life, he had risen from his bed naked, his bedclothes having vanished like a magician’s dove. And finally his aftershave had disappeared, replaced with a brand he wouldn’t be caught dead with.”
p.16 (Dalkey Archive Press)

After a strange encounter with a wife who no longer behaves like the one he’s lived with for years, K’s confusion grows…

Over the course of the weekend, K attempts to work out why his life seems subtly different. The key appears to be a missing ninety-minute section of his memory during his Friday-night drinking, a period in which he did a lot of things which are out of character. Pursuing every trail he can find, he slowly realises that his life is not what he thought it was. What if he’s not really in control of his life – what if it’s all just a game?

Quite apart from the name of the main character, Another Man’s City contains obvious references to Kafka (especially The Trial and The Castle), and the early parts reflect this, with K charging around the city trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. Later, the story becomes (even) more surreal, though, and the reader must pay close attention to the clues Ch’oe spreads throughout the text. The whole affair turns into an existential puzzle as K begins to wonder whether the world around him has shifted, or whether it’s actually he who has changed.

It’s certainly a page turner, the writer dragging us around Seoul in K’s wake, taking us places we’ve never been before (and some we’d much rather not have ventured into). The key to the story is working out what actually happened on the Friday night, and after catching up with a friend, the man he was drinking with before the blackout, the hunt is on. As K attempts to retrace his steps, we see there’s more to life in the big city than office buildings and late night drinking sessions. As much as an external trip, it’s really a journey into K’s psyche – and there are some disturbing things in there, let me tell you.

One way of seeing the novel is as an examination of modern life, an amusing picture of modern-day Seoul. The anonymity of the big city means that there are types not people, which might explain why K sees the same faces over and over again. This extends to the names the writer gives his characters – K, H, P… One of the few more individual names, Olenka, belongs to a professor who spends his weekends getting in touch with his feminine side (not a character I’ve found in Kafka…).

Another major theme here is a fear of the all-seeing power of the state. As K becomes aware of the changes around him, he begins to sense the hand of a higher agency, one he’s quick to label ‘Big Brother’. From the Kafkaesque, then, we move to the Orwellian, a sense that every move we make is predictable, preordained and observed:

“Hadn’t K become a human train, an automaton, coming and going as programmed? If he wanted to try a different kind of coffee, wouldn’t that thought too have been programmed by Big Brother? And even if he were to select orange juice instead of coffee in an attempt to circumvent Big Brother’s control, wouldn’t such a niggling deviation also be consistent with Big Brother’s plan?” (p.127)

Still, it’s not quite that simple – this is not a cheap knock-off of modern western classics…

This novel was completed shortly before Choe’s death in 2013, forty years after the appearance of the short story ‘Another Man’s Room’ (included in the Modern Korean Fiction anthology). In this story, a man comes home from a business trip to find his wife absent, and has strange experiences in an apartment which seems to have altered in imperceptible ways. Another Man’s City, quite apart from the title, has a lot in common with the earlier piece, seeming almost to be an expansion of that brief story, one taking it to another level; perhaps it’s a theme Ch’oe was determined to tackle again before his writing days were done.

Another Man’s City is a clever novel, one for those who enjoy books where nothing can be taken for granted, and where everything is slightly off-kilter. While learning about Korean culture and traditions can be interesting, it’s good to read something a little different now and then, and this one makes a nice change from some of the more traditional, culturally laden novels. I can think of worse ways to spend your weekend than a quick trip around Seoul in K’s company ;)

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Robert and Bobbie and Mark and Susan know that there’s a big difference between preparation and actual experience. This is your guide to actually dealing with all the things that come after “I do.” In this unique flip-over format, the chapter topics are the same but one half is written by men for the husband, and the other half is written from a women’s perspective for the wife. As a couple, you’ll each progress through your part of the book and meet somewhere in the middle.

Become an expert on what really makes your spouse happy, and enjoy the benefits of a great partnership. Take an honest look at the family you grew up in: its unwritten codes, how it has shaped you, and the ways it affects your relationship with your mate. Learn how to speak each other’s “language” and appreciate the qualities each of you brings to your marriage.

You’ll also get an eye-opening look at communication skills, secrets for a great sex life, budget basics, dealing with in-laws, navigating tough times, and much more. Above all, you’ll cultivate a spiritual unity that draws the two of you closer to each other as you draw closer to God.

Start reading, and make this first year together what it was meant to be: the most important year in your life.

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• Released on: 2010-10-05
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The Wolgemuths (hes an author and owner of a literary agency; shes an author) and the DeVries (hes a pastor and author; she assists him in premarital counseling and marriage retreats) offer here a two-in-one, flip-over-format volume aimed at newlywed Christian couples. Recognizing the success of their own marriages, the authors decided to share their experiences and advice with couples in that make-or-break first year of marriage. Both "books" have the same layout and cover topics such as money, sex and in-laws, but they cater, thematically and tonally, to the gender of their audience. The mans chapter on sex, for instance, playfully employs a baseball metaphor throughout: the male authors fondly recall boyhood discussions of "getting to first base," and offer suggestions for how husbands can please and love their wives without immediately going for the "home run." The womans sex chapter, on the other hand, skips the metaphors, and instead gently explains that communication is key in the first year, and that the wife needs to teach her husband how to satisfy her. The authors consider "normals"-things one spouse grew up thinking was natural but might seem strange to the other (such as the belief that no house is complete without "a really big dog," the conviction that husbands should make more money than their wives, or the assumption that being late is fine). Addressing these "normals" help spouses understand why their partners behave the way they do, which in turn can ease conflicts. Boldly, the authors address the sometimes controversial Biblical principle of submission: "No relationship, in fact, can succeed without submission," they claim. It needs to happen voluntarily (neither spouse can force their partner to submit), and when both people actively and humbly work to yield to each other, "the marriage always wins." And the secret ingredient to successful marriages? Friendship: "it is only in the fields of friendship that the long-term passion and intimacy you long for can grow and flourish." Each book is neatly wrapped up with a "Meet in the Middle" section, which offers questions and exercises the husband and wife can work through together to continue to build upon the lessons theyve just learned.
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Your marriage could be one of historys great love stories! As newlyweds, its time to ensure that your marriage can meet the challenges it will face right around the corner. Cultivating good habits during these first twelve foundational months of your marriage and knowing what to focus on will set the stage for years to come. Robert and Bobbie and Mark and Susan know that theres a big difference between preparation and actual experience. This is your guide to actually dealing with all the things that come after I do. In this unique flip-over format, the chapter topics are the same but one half is written by men for the husband, and the other half is written from a womens perspective for the wife. As a couple, youll each progress through your part of the book and meet somewhere in the middle. Become an expert on what really makes your spouse happy, and enjoy the benefits of a great partnership. Take an honest look at the family you grew up in: its unwritten codes, how it has shaped you, and the ways it affects your relationship with your mate. Learn how to speak each others language and appreciate the qualities each of you brings to your marriage. Youll also get an eye-opening look at communication skills, secrets for a great sex life, budget basics, dealing with in-laws, navigating tough times, and much more. Above all, youll cultivate a spiritual unity that draws the two of you closer to each other as you draw closer to God. Start reading, and make this first year together what it was meant to be: the most important year in your life.

About the Author

In August of 1996, Robert released his first book, She Calls Me Daddy: Seven Things Every Man Needs to Know about Building a Complete Daughter. The book became a bestseller. He is also the author of many other titles including The Most Important Place on Earth: What a Christian Home Looks Like and How to Build One; Seven Things You Better Have Nailed Down before All Hell Breaks Loose and the sequel to his first book, She Still Calls Me Daddy: Building a New Relationship with Your Daughter after You Walk Her Down the Aisle. He has also co-written The Most Important Year in a Man’s Life: What Every Groom Needs to Know with Mark DeVries, and What’s in the Bible with Dr. RC Sproul.

His speaking assignments have taken him across America and through several foreign countries.

Robert Wolgemuth has served two terms as the Chairman of the Evangelical Christian Publishers’ Association. As a layman, he has taught adult Sunday school classes since 1969 in Texas, Tennessee and Florida

A 1969 graduate of Taylor University, he received an honorary doctorate in 2005. Robert, a widower, is the father of two adult daughters and five grandchildren. In the fall of 2015, Robert married Nancy Leigh DeMoss. .

Mark DeVries is pastor of youth and families at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has served for the past seventeen years. In addition to authoring several books, including Family-Based Youth Ministry and True Love Waits, he is founder of Youth Ministry Architects (www.ymarchitects.com), a strategic-planning service for churches facing transitions in their youth ministries. He and his wife, Susan, live in Nashville.

Bobbie Wolgemuth was a Bible teacher and the author or co-author of several books, including Mom’s Bible: God’s Wisdom for Mothers and the four-book Gold Medallion bestselling series Hymns for a Kid’s Heart with Joni Eareckson Tada. She is also the coauthor of Couples of the Bible with her husband, Robert.

Susan DeVries has made a career out of being a wife, mother, and supervising editor of every word Mark has ever written. Over the past twenty-three years, Susan has partnered with Mark in providing premarital counseling and leading marriage retreats and classes for couples. Mark and Susan have three children and live in middle Tennessee.

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Life After the Wedding!
By A Customer
Both my husband and I of 4 months are reading "The Most Important Year in a Womans/Mans Life", and we are thoroughly impressed with it so far!
My husband really liked how his "side"of the book started out with topics of sports, and money...he says that immediately grabbed his attention.
Now my "side", Susan Devries and Bobble Wolgemuth writing style really appealed to the emotional aspect of marriage...the expectations prior to marraige, and the reality of life after marraige. I appreciate their ability to effectively communicate womens emotion in writing, which is not easy to do! I believe the lady authors do a superb job at capturing the emotions and lending that support for the female during the 1st year of marraige.
The book also speaks on topics such as sex from both the male and female perspective...So the female authors explain what sex is like for the men-and the importance of making love with your husband, and the male authors explain sex to the men using a baseball analogy (first base, second base, third base, and home) to ensure they comprehend how to make love to your wife.
There is also the middle section, "Meet in the middle" with activities/review material for the husband and wife to complete together once they have each read their portion.
This is a very creative book! 2-in-1! I have never seen that!
I will definately recommend this book to other newlyweds in my church!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A Useful Resource for Newly Marrieds
By PhilThreeten
Susan and Mark DeVries and Bobbie and Robert Wolgemuth have put together not only a helpful first year companion for newly marrieds, theyve done it with creativity.

This one book is really two books in one. From one side, women can read about what to expect, how to handle, and generally what constitutes a good first year in a Christian marriage. From the opposite side of the book, men develop the same type of material. Then, in the middle, are questions and ideas to bring the two sides together. They tackle topics from a balanced, Christian perspective and give tremendous insight into both sides of the marriage relationship.

The only issue I had with the book was that from the womans perspective (yeah, I peaked in on that side :) there is great emphasis placed on the womans ability to change the man. Though typical of our culture today, I think this is the only (though not necessarily insignificant) unbalanced part of the book. I would have liked to have heard on both sides of the book how both the husband and wife provide complimentary change into each others lives. This then focuses on mutual change, dreams, and submission.

Even with that problem, I think I could recommend this book to newly married couples as a good guideline on how to build a strong foundation for a life-long commitment to an imperfect person.

For a full review, go to the blog in my screen name and click on the Readings category.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Great for any stage of maariage
By Corey Morgan
I have been married for a year and a half and just read the book. You can read it before you get married or thirty years down the road. It tells you simple rules and ideas you can actually practice. I know its a Christian book and that is one reason why I was given it, but you can read it being any faith, just as long as you want a better marriage and relationship. And its so fun being in one book to "meet in the middle." I am about to read his side of the book now!

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