Jesse Ball

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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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 a...

• Feb-2009
• / General Fiction
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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 spe...

• Jun-2011
• / Literary
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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 daughte...

• Jul-2011
• / Literary
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Writings from the prize-winning author of The Divers’ Game: “Reading Ball feels a little like stumbling into an M.C. Escher print.” -- Chicago TribuneThis volume by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend...

• Feb-2014
• / Historical
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Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as “the Narito Disappearances,” the crime has authorities baffled -- until a confession appears on ...

• Jul-2015
• / Psychological Suspense
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From the acclaimed author of Silence Once Begun comes a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. A man and a woman have moved into a small house ...

• Nov-2015
• / Literary
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A Vintage Short  Loring is a widow and chess master who makes her living giving chess lessons; her newest student, who might be a prodigy, bears a striking resemblance to her dead spouse. Has her chess champion husband found a final move beyond ...

• Jul-2016
• / Psychological Suspense
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Lucia Stanton’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s recently been kicked out of school -- again. Living with her aunt in a garage-turned-bedroom, and armed with only a book, a Zippo lighter, and a pocketful of stolen lic...

• Mar-2018
• / Literary
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A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long le...

• Sep-2019
• / Literary
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From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality -- and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power The old-fashioned struggle for fairness...

• Sep-2024
• / Science Fiction
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Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writersIn a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of t...