Silence Once Begun

By Jesse Ball

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345805526
• ISBN13: 9780345805522
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.0"