Jesse Ball
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
-- Silence Once Begun, A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an “examiner,” the man, her “claimant.” The examiner is both doctor and guide, charged with teaching the claimant a series of simple functions: this is a chair, this is a fork, this is how you meet people. She makes notes in her journal about his progress: he is showing improvement yet his dreams are troubling. One day the examiner brings...