Samedi the Deafness

  A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL, SEPTEMBER 2007

  Copyright © 2007 by Jesse Ball

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

  Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks and Vintage Contemporaries is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Ball, Jesse, 1978–

  Samedi the deafness : a novel / by Jesse Ball.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-45593-2

  1. Mnemonics—Fiction. 2. Psychological games—Fiction. 3. Sanatoriums—Fiction. 4. Terrorists—Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

  PS3602.A596S36 2007

  813'.6—dc22

  2007016256

  www.vintagebooks.com

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  Table of Contents

  Cover Page

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Day the First

  Day the Second

  Day the Third

  Day the Fourth

  Day the Fifth

  Day the Sixth

  Day the Seventh

  Appendix

  A Note on the Naming of Characters

  A Note on Sources

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Copyright