The Dumb House (Vintage Classics)
by:
John Burnside (author)
As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small...
show more
As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals – tiny hearts revealed still pumping, as life trickles away. But as an adult, following the death of his mother, Luke’s obsession deepens, resulting in a haunting and bizarre experiment on Luke’s own children.
show less
Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781446412237
ASIN: B004ASOVVC
Publish date: 2010-12-15
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world. As a child, the unnamed narrator listened to his mother telling a persian myth about the dumb house. The dumb house is a palace, in which Akbar the Great put newborn children, att...
Log in with Facebook 
 by John Burnside, now listed on BookLikes)