The Lockmaster: A Short Story of Killing (German: Der Fallmeister.
Eine kurze Geschichte vom Töten) is a 2021 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr.
Set in a future where freshwater is rare and Europe is divided, it follows the son of a lock operator who investigates his father's possible guilt in a flooding incident that killed five people.
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