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 is abducted, brought to an asylum, and seduced by a woman in yellow. Who...
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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?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307278852 (0307278859)
ASIN: 0307278859
Publish date: 2007-09-04
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
The oddness of this book reminded me a bit of Haruki Murakami and Jim Krusoe, but in the end Jesse Ball is his own artist. I can see through his prose that he began as a poet, and there are some beautiful lines in this book. This is my first foray into Ball's work, but I will read everything I can f...
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