<DIV><I>The Village on Horseback</I> features mesmerizing new work from the author of <I>Samedi the Deafness</I> and <I>The Way Through Doors,</I> one of the <I>New Yorker's</I> 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, <I>The Village on Horseback</I> can be read as a sort of fabulist's compendium by an author who has been called charming, lyrical, fanciful, and "disturbingly original."</DIV>