
Silence Once Begun
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From the celebrated author of The Curfew ("A spare masterwork of dystopian fiction" -The New York Times Book Review), Jesse Ball's Silence Once Begun is 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 door. Known as the "Narito Disappearances," the crime has authorities baffled-until a confession appears on the police's doorstep, signed by Oda Sotatsu, a thread salesman. Sotatsu is arrested, jailed, and interrogated-but he refuses to speak. Even as his parents, brother, and sister come to visit him, even as his execution looms, and even as a young woman named Jito Joo enters his cell, he maintains his vow of silence. Our narrator, a journalist named Jesse Ball, is grappling with mysteries of his own when he becomes fascinated by the case. Why did Sotatsu confess? Why won't he speak? Who is Jito Joo? As Ball interviews Sotatsu's family, friends, and jailers, he uncovers a complex story of heartbreak, deceit, honor, and chance. Wildly inventive and emotionally powerful, Silence Once Begun is a devastating portrayal of a justice system compromised, and evidence that Jesse Ball is a voraciously gifted novelist working at the height of his powers. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
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Jesse Ball is the author of three previous novels, including Samedi the Deafness, and several books of verse, bestiaries, and sketchbooks. His awards include the 2008 Paris Review Plimpton Prize; his verse has been included in the Best American Poetry series. He gives classes on lucid dreaming and lying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prefatory Material
- 1. The Situation of Oda Sotatsu
- A First Telling of the Story
- The Wager
- According to His Landlady, the Next Morning
- The Daughter of Oda's Landlady
- Int. Note
- Seven Months of Confinement
- Awaiting Trail
- Interrogation 1
- Interview 1 (Mother)
- THE NARITO DISAPPEARANCES
- Interrogation 2
- Interview 2 (Brother)
- Interrogation 3
- Interview 3 (Mother)
- Int. Note
- Interview 4 (Sister)
- Interview 5 (Brother)
- Interview 6 (Brother)
- Interrogation 4
- Interview 7 (Mother)
- Interview 8 (Mother)
- Interview 9 (Father)
- Trial
- Int. Note: Regarding the Newspaper Coverage of the Trial
- Oda Trial Coverage [Ko Eiji]
- Oda Trial Coverage [Ko Eiji]
- Oda Trial Coverage [Ko Eiji]
- Oda Trial Coverage [Ko Eiji]
- Oda Trial Coverage [Ko Eiji]
- Oda Trial Coverage [Ko Eiji]
- Oda Trial Coverage [Ko Eiji]
- Ko
- Interview
- Int. Note
- Room Like a Gallows Tree
- Int. Note: Transfer to Death Row
- Interview 10 (Brother)
- Interview 11 (Watanabe Garo)
- Photograph of Jito Joo
- Interview 12 (Brother)
- Interview 13 (Brother)
- Interview 14 (Watanabe Garo)
- Interview 15 (Brother's Wife)
- Int. Note
- Int. Note
- Interview 16 (Brother)
- Interview 17 (Brother and Mother)
- Interview 18 (Watanabe Garo)
- Interview 19 (Brother)
- Interview 20 (Brother)
- Document Side One: Holograph Will
- Document Side Two: Letter to Father
- Interview 21 (Watanabe Garo)
- 2. To Find Jito Joo
- Int. Note
- Int. Note
- The House of Jito Joo
- Int. Note: Speaking to Joo in Her Home
- Int. Note
- Int. Note
- Int. Note: Letter to Jito Joo
- Int. Note: Two Weeks
- 2.1. The Testimony of Jito Joo
- Int. Note
- 3. Lastly, Kakuzo
- Int. Note
- Interview (Sato Kakuzo)
- Statements (Sato Kakuzo)
- Narito Disappearances: BLUEPRINT
- The Invention of a Crime
- Confessions & The Idea of a Confession
- Joo & How It Went in Practice
- Joo & How It Went in Practice 2
- How It Went in Practice
- How It Went in Practice 2
- How It Went in Practice 3
- How It Went in Practice 4
- How It Went in Practice 5
- Fin
- Acknowledgments
- Reading Group Guide
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
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