The Tunnel Reader China two blocks from a lighthouse

two blocks from a lighthouse where he is a docent and the historian

but also puts doubt in his own mind about his own existence

Harold Lime obsessively listens to Mahler

there were two superpowers in the world and a gulf of silence between them

murderous sorcerers

The Tunnel Reader China two blocks from a lighthousePublication date: April 7th, 2026 Twenty six years in the making, William H. Gasss The Tunnel appeared in 1995 and was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. It is the story of William Kohler, a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study Guilt and Innocence in Nazi Germany, finds himself writing about his own life instead of the introduction to his magnum opus. A colossal, labyrinthine investigation into the wreckage of