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Title	:	The Dumb House
Author	:	John Burnside
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 204 pages
Published	:	August 6th 2015 by Vintage Classics (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Classics. Adult. Literary Fiction. Adult Fiction. Contemporary

The Dumb House

John Burnside

Paperback | Pages: 204 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 2093 Users | 403 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	The Dumb House
ISBN:	1784870110 (ISBN13: 9781784870119)
Edition Language:	English

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Holy shit. Holy shit. That is my eloquent, professional opinion. Hands down my favourite read of 2015 so far, and it's going to take a damn amazing book to beat it. Imagine Perfume, Poor Things & Lolita had a book baby. This is it, and it's bloody terrifying and brilliant.

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This book was odd. It was definitely interesting, and very disturbing, but I found myself disappointed. I wanted more. It had such a unique and messed-up premise and then very little happened.

The idea of the novel is very interesting with its theme about the power of language but I felt something was missing - as if the author could not decide how to develop it - in a philosophical and/ or psychological way or in a sensational, Gothic one. The hybrid that results is not quite a psychological thriller nor a horror story but something in between. The portrait of Mother, for example, who influenced so much the narrator, is blurred and unconvincing for his behaviour. However, there are

DisturbingUnsettlingMorbidBleakHorrifyingOutstandingUniqueSinisterEvilIf you like your books to be disturbing, dark and twisted then this is one for you! I normally prefer light and fluffy chick-lit books but got this after seeing/hearing Jen Campbell's review and I now understand why she was raving about it! It's a book I shouldn't have liked and have no understanding why I did enjoy it as the subject matters are horrifying at times but it's written so well that you just get swept along in the

When I began The Dumb House, it reminded me somewhat of John Fowles' The Collector and Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory. Regardless, it was so much creepier. Chilling from the very start, The Dumb House is as compelling as it is bloodcurdlingly disturbing. Horribly fantastic, and creepily believable is the narrator, Luke, whose ideas are undoubtedly sickening but related to paper so well by Burnside. Tautly written, and powerful. A memorable and fantastic book - one which I loved due to its scope

I feel like I would have enjoyed this more if it hadn't been so hyped up. It is a disturbing story. It is beautifully written. But over hyped by the internet. I was expecting too much from it.