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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Dumb House
• Author: John Burnside
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780099546528
• ISBN: 0099546523
• ID: 04491853
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 154 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 129 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. June 2009

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