The Dumb House by John Burnside

The Dumb House

John Burnside

198 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction classics horror literary dark mysterious slow-paced
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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 acquired. As the year passed and the children grew into their sil...

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