The police declared it an accident, but Paul is bothered by the "anomalies" he finds, such as signs of someone cooking steak, a rearrangement of the book shelf, and the question as to what his wife was doing in the apple tree in the first place. When he comes home he finds his wife, Alexandra "Lexy" Ransome, dead, fallen from an apple tree. Paul Iverson called home to find a police officer answering the phone and suggesting him to come home. Like the builders in the story, Paul is hampered by the differences in communication between himself and Lorelei. The Dogs of Babel is an allusion to the Tower of Babel, the Biblical story that explains the existence of different languages. Throughout the book, Paul uncovers more about his wife's last day and remembers events through their life they led up to it.Įxplanation of the novel's title He is very troubled by this and therefore for the remainder of the book he is trying to teach the only witness of her death, his dog Lorelei, to speak. The book is narrated by Paul Iverson, a linguist who calls home one day to find out his wife is dead. The Dogs of Babel was the first book that Parkhurst wrote it was not the first novel that Parkhurst envisioned. It was one of The New York Times Notable Fiction & Poetry books of 2003. The Dogs of Babel (also known as Lorelei's Secret in the UK) is the debut novel of Carolyn Parkhurst.
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