Jesse Ball

Kiedy zapadła cisza to niezwykła powieść kryminalna dziennikarza Jessego Balla, niejednokrotnie porównywana do Procesu Franza Kafki. Japonia, 1977 rok. Z małego miasteczka w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach znika kilku mieszkańców. Władze są bezradne do czasu, gdy na policję wpływa zeznanie podpisane przez Odę Sotatsu, prostego handlarza nićmi. W...

A NovelFrom the celebrated author of The Curfew (';A spare masterwork of dystopian fiction' The New York Times Book Review), Jesse Ball's Silence Once Begun is an astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love, and a journalist's obsession.Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same...

Mroczna historia niesprawiedliwego wyroku, utraconej miłości i dziennikarskiej obsesji.W ciągu kilku miesięcy z japońskiego miasteczka znika bez śladu ośmiu mieszkańców, na progu ich domów za każdym razem ktoś zostawia kartę do gry. Władze są bezradne wobec tej sytuacji, nazywanej Zaginięciami Narito. Niespodziewanie na policję zgłasza się handlarz...

William and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William's wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter. They keep their heads down and try to remain unnoticed as police patrol the streets,...

One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi. What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to an asylum, and seduced by a woman in yellow. Who is lying? What is...

With his debut novel, Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity.When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital. The girl has lost her memory; she is delirious and has no...