Dumb House

Name: Dumb House
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9781784870119
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Autor: John Burnside

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Vintage Publishing

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In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn ch...

Informacje o książce

Autor

John Burnside

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2015

strony

224

EAN

9781784870119

ISBN

1784870110

Enbook ID

09120600

Wydawca

Vintage Publishing

Waga

164

Wymiary

197 x 131 x 15

Pełny opis

In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn children, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or aquired. As the year passed and the chidren grew into their silent and difficult world, this palace became known as the Gang Mahal, or Dumb House. In his first novel, John Burnside explores the possibilites inherent in a modern-day repetition of Akbar's investigations. Following the death of his mother, the unnamed narrator creates a twisted varient of the Dumb House, finally using his own chidren as subjects in a bizarre experiment. When the children develop a musical language of their own, however, their gaoler is the one who is excluded, and he extracts an appalling revenge.

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