All These Kinfolk

Download or read book The Lime Works written by Thomas Bernhard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he’s just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair. The murder and the bizarre life that led to it are the subject of a mass of hearsay related by an unnamed life-insurance salesman in a narrative as mazy, byzantine, and mysterious as the lime works—Konrad’s sanctuary and tomb.