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The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kafka by way of Vanity Fair, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled takes one of my favorite genres of storytelling, the 'devil comes to town' narrative in which a figure of mystery and malice turns a community's sins out into the open to spectacular destructive effect, into something much more muted and in its own way, more unsettling. The townspeople in The Unconsoled don't have moral failings to expose and explode, but instead a deep-seated malaise and vacuity that sets them adrift, pinging off of each other and our central pianist as he tries to navigate the town. I've never been particularly inclined to read a lot of Ishiguro, but I'm glad I started here (at what people say is his strangest novel.)