Books by Jesse Ball
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review 1: I am trying to write. Long pause’s because I am actually speechless. I have left it twenty four hours for this to sink in. Fiction written around actual events is just so exciting to me and this will remain one of the most potent account’s I have ever read. The investigating is c...
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review 1: Jesse Ball has put an intriguing spin on a murder-mystery story with Silence Once Begun. After a string of people vanish from the same Japanese village, a fictional caricature of the author travels as a journalist to investigate the man who has confessed to committing these myste...
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review 1: I abandoned it. It may be that if I had persevered I would have ended up loving it, but I just couldn't be bothered. I love experimental writing and interesting narrative structures, however, I like them when they complement the story and the characters, not for their own sake. W...
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review 1: This was a beautiful story. An oppressive government, a mute child, a missing mother, an illegal puppet show, and the attempt to make peace in an ugly world. I would share more but then the story would be ruined. The writing is simple and sparse. It is a sad novel but it is fille...
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review 1: I needed some time to process my feelings about this book. I've concluded that I enjoyed it very much and need to discover the rest of the author's work. The story begins familiarly, meeting our characters in their dystopian setting, but it quickly turns in unexpected directions,...