Paul Iverson called home to find a police officer answering the phone and suggesting that he 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. He spends the remainder of the book trying to teach the only witness of her death, his dog Lorelei, to speak.

Urn:oclc:77501852 Scandate 20100122215009 Scanner book is narrated by Paul Iverson, a linguist who calls home one day to find out his wife is dead. OL5837521W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.67 Pages 280 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:8373014411 Urn:lcp:dogsofbabel00park:epub:9aa9e152-b8d5-4add-8b1e-c4eacf934dfd Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dogsofbabel00park Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2s47945f Isbn 0316168688ĩ780316168687 Lccn 2002043644 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Written with a quiet elegance and a profound knowledge of love's hidden places, The Dogs of Babel is a novel of astonishing and lasting power-a story of marriage, survival, and devotion that lies too deep for wordsĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:02:39 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA111602 Boxid_2 CH001401 Camera Canon 5D City Boston DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed. As Paul's investigation leads him in unexpected and even perilous directions, he revisits the pivotal moments of his life with Lexy, the brilliant, enigmatic woman whose sparkling passion for life and dark, troubled past he embraced equally. Perhaps behind her wise and earnest eyes lies the key to what really happened to the woman he loved. A linguist by training, Paul embarks on an impossible endeavor: a series of experiments designed to teach Lorelei to communicate what she knows. But he can't do it alone he needs Lorelei's help.

Reeling from grief, Paul is determined to decipher this evidence and unlock the mystery of her death. In the days and weeks that follow, Paul begins to notice strange 'clues' in their home: books rearranged on their shelves, a mysterious phone call, and other suggestions that nothing about Lexy's last afternoon was quite what it seemed. The only witness was their dog, Lorelei, whose anguished barking brought help to the scene-but too late.

He returns home one day to find that his wife, Lexy, has died under strange circumstances. Paul Iverson's Life Changes in an instant.

The dogs of babel by carolyn parkhurst