The Village on Horseback

features mesmerizing new work from the author of

Samedi the Deafness

and

The Way Through Doors,

one of the

New Yorker’s

Best Books of 2009. This collection of new pieces by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend. Unearthing parables from the compost heap of oral tradition, folklore, literature, and popular culture,

The Village on Horseback

can be read as a sort of fabulist’s compendium by an author who has been called charming, lyrical, fanciful, and "disturbingly original."