The Curfew (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

"[A] brilliant work of speculative fiction that calls to mind Kafka's The Trial, Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and, most prominently, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451." --New City Chicago

"Few authors have the guts or the skill to pull off a book like this." --Time Out Chicago

"There is a hushed and elegiac quality to this nocturne of a novel. . . . Ball possesses a remarkably mythic sensibility, achieving a spare yet merciful mode that brings Borges, Calvino, and Simic to mind. Solemn beauty, beguiling invention, and unnerving insights into insidious tyranny and terror and depthless sorrow make for a haunting dystopian tale." --Booklist

"[A] delicately etched nightmare." --Kirkus Reviews

"Jesse Ball once again manages to deliver a devastating blow with a deceptively small package. In his third novel, father and daughter William and Molly live as happy a life as they can under a shady, authoritarian regime. The horrors are only hinted at in Ball's poetic and economic style, but the love among family shines through it all." --AM New York

"Written in clipped and brutal prose . . . [the] narrative is buoyed by nuanced characters. . . . Ball's ideas and heart make this a very compelling read." --Publisher's Weekly