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Highlights
- In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great built a palace which he filled with newborns, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or aquired.
- About the Author: John Burnside is the author of The Glister; Living Nowhere; Something Like Happy, which was the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year; A Summer of Drowning which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize; and Black Cat Bone, which won both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.
- 208 Pages
- Non-Classifiable
- Series Name: Vintage Classics
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In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great built a palace which he filled with newborns, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or aquired. As the children 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 possibilities inherent in a modern-day repetition of Akbar`s investigations. The unnamed narrator creates a twisted variant of the Dumb House. When the children develop a musical language of their own, excluding their jailer, he extracts an appalling revenge.Review Quotes
"A wonderfully disturbing book--chillingly focused and lyrically amoral with moments of remarkable stillness and beauty. A poetic novel in the best and most troubling sense." --A. L. Kennedy, author, Paradise
"An exceptionally sinister book. . . . The horror is tempered and fine-tuned by the exceptional beauty of Burnside's writing. . . . Burnside has produced one of the most chilling voices in recent fiction." --Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
John Burnside is the author of The Glister; Living Nowhere; Something Like Happy, which was the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year; A Summer of Drowning which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize; and Black Cat Bone, which won both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Vintage Classics
Genre: Non-Classifiable
Number of Pages: 208
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Author: John Burnside
Language: English
Street Date: April 1, 2016
TCIN: 94030733
UPC: 9781784870119
Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-6953
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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