Books by Jesse Ball
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How to Set a Fire and Why
A startling, subversive novel about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Fourteen-year-old Lucia is a young narrator whose voice will long ring in your ears. She is angry with almost everyone... See More
Silence Once Begun
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 Japanese town, a single playing card found on each... See More
A Cure for Suicide
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... See More
The Way Through Doors (Vintage Contemporaries)
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... See More
The Divers' Game
A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another child, Lessen, is at the centre of a bizarre cultural ritual that could be the subject of a Goya... See More
Samedi the Deafness (Vintage Contemporaries)
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... See More
March Book (Grove Press Poetry)
This debut book of poetry from the Plimpton Award-winning author of Census "displays an otherworldly virtuosity... coolly seductive and skillfully wrought" (DeSales Harrison, Boston Review). Called "A young genius" by the... See More
The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003–2008
Writings from the prize-winning author of The Divers' Game: "Reading Ball feels a little like stumbling into an M.C. Escher print." -- Chicago Tribune This volume by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical... See More
The Lesson (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)
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... See More
The Literary Review: The Long Issue
One of America's premiere literary quarterlies takes on the challenge of long form. In this issue of TLR, read three new novellas and two long poems. Give yourself the chance to indulge in a completely different pace. TLR... See More