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Автор Джесс Болл

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.

Copyright © 2014 by Jesse Ball

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House Companies.

Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

A portion of this work first appeared in Printers Row Journal in the Chicago Tribune (January 26, 2013).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ball, Jesse.

   Silence once begun / Jesse Ball.

      pages cm

   ISBN 978-0-307-90848-3

eBook ISBN 9780307908490

   1. Journalists—Fiction. 2. Americans—Japan—Fiction. 3. Secrets—Fiction. 4. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.

   PS3602. A596S55 2013 813′. 6—dc23     2013005948

Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund

v3. 1

For K. Abe & S.

Endo

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

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

About the Author

Other Books by This Author

The following work of fiction is partially based on fact.