The Short Version: An examiner arrives in a small village, where she is to attend to a man (a “claimant”) who has just arrived. The man is disorientated and seems to be learning everything all over again about living. What is this place? Who is this examiner? Why is this man here? The Review: I discovered Jesse Ball through the Tournament of Books last year, when Silence Once Begun was on the bracket. That strange novel – an outlier, I was […]

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