''The Lockmaster: A Short Story of Killing'' () is a 2021 novel by the Austrian writer

Christoph Ransmayr Christoph Ransmayr (; born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer. Life Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as ...

. Set in a future where freshwater is rare and Europe is divided, it follows the son of a

lock Lock(s) or Locked may refer to: Common meanings *Lock and key, a mechanical device used to secure items of importance *Lock (water navigation), a device for boats to transit between different levels of water, as in a canal Arts and entertainme ...

operator who investigates his father's possible guilt in a flooding incident that killed five people. The book was published in English translation in 2024.

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Seagull Books

S. Fischer Verlag
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