num_pages: 241
description: For twenty 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.
language: English
title: The Lime Works
titlecomplete: The Lime Works
genres: Classics, Novels, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 1490
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Translation
publisher: University of Chicago Press