Silence Once Begun
Author | : Jesse Ball |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780345805522 |
ISBN-13 | : 0345805526 |
Rating | : 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Download or read book Silence Once Begun written by Jesse Ball and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the police’s doorstep, signed by one Oda Sotatsu, a thread salesman. Sotatsu is arrested, jailed, and interrogated, but he refuses to speak. Even as his family comes to visit, even as his execution looms, and even as a young woman named Jito Joo enters his cell, he maintains his vow of silence. And as a journalist’s obsession uncovers more to the story, Jesse Ball spins a wildly inventive and emotionally powerful take of unjust conviction and lost love.