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This happened a lot throughout reading the dumb house. Winner of the british book awards fiction book of the year and overall book of the year, selected as the waterstones book of the year, and a costa book award finalist a novel of almost insolent ambitionlush and fantastical, a wild eden behind a garden gate. For businessexclusive pricing, quantity discounts and downloadable vat invoices. Burnside got married at about the time he published his first novel, the dumb house, and moved back to scotland where he took up a writers residency at dundee university. If swimming in the flood is burnsides best book, the dumb house is his worst. As a child, lukes 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. Its a book that was first published in 1997, but it has recently been getting a lot of attention on the internet, thanks to jen campbells mention of it on her youtube channel. An adenoidally creepy, affecting debut about one mans mad hunt for the origins of language and the soul. Born in scotland, he moved away in 1965, returning to settle there in 1995.
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