Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball - ISBN: 9780307278852
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A stunning debut, this work is a dream-like spy novel set in an asylum for the curing of chronic liars. Like a tale by Lewis Carroll or a film by David Lynch, [it] teeters on the edge of unreality, plunges right in, and comes back again full circle—Tom McCarthy, author of "Remainder."

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    291 pages

  • Release Date

    4 September 2007

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Summary

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 Samedi? And what will happen on the seventh day?

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780307278852
ISBN-10:0307278859
Author:Jesse Ball
Publisher:Vintage Books USA
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:291
Release Date:4 September 2007
Weight:308g
Dimensions:17mm x 154mm x 202mm
Series:Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
About The Author

Jesse Ball

<b>Jesse Ball</b> (1978-) was born in Long Island, the second child of Robert and Catherine Ball. Educated at Vassar College and Columbia University, he has lived at times in Europe, and has worked as an editor, a croupier, a tutor, and a photographer. His first volume, <i>March Book, </i> appeared in 2004, followed by <i>Vera & Linus</i> (2006). His drawings were published in 2006 in Iceland in the volume <i>Og svo kom nottin</i>. Work of his has appeared in many major domestic and international journals, and was included in <i>Bes

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