Samedi the Deafness

"Ball has created a strange modern technothriller -- Kafka meets Hitchcock -- laden with questions about truth, identity, memory, and the importance of names, a story that casts an unsettling spell." --Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child

"Jesse Ball's Samedi the Deafness is an urgent book. For all its formal playfulness and the dreamlike unfolding of its characters and landscape, it is trying intently to tell us something about our world and our way of living, and it challenges us to listen. No serious reader can refuse this challenge--and given that Samedi is, in its own way, a thriller, no reader will want to." --Paul La Farge, author of Haussmann, or the Distinction