The Geometer Lobachevsky
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The Geometer Lobachevsky: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year

The Geometer Lobachevsky: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year


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'When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology ...' It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of his illustrious namesake, is surveying a bog in the Irish Midlands, where he studies the locals, the land and their ways. One afternoon, soon after he arrives, he receives a telegram calling him back to Leningrad for a 'special appointment'. Lobachevsky may not be a great genius but he is not foolish: he recognises a death sentence when he sees one and leaves to go into hiding on a small island in the Shannon estuary, where the island families harvest seaweed and struggle to split rocks. Here Lobachevsky must think about death, how to avoid it and whether he will ever see his home again

About the Author :
Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist and writer who originally trained as a structural engineer. His novels are Love Notes from a German Building Site (2019) and A Sabbatical in Leipzig (2020), and he published a story collection Midfield Dynamo in 2021. Duncan was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021, longlisted for the 2021 Edge Hill Prize and won the John McGahern Book Prize in 2020.

Review :
Uncanny, strange and exquisite, akin to the Mitteleuropean fictions of László Krasznahorkai and Milan Kundera A masterful meditation on exile ... by one of our most original writers He brings a mixture of the exact and the visionary ... an original voice, a writer who has come to recreate the world on his own terms One of the most important, original and intriguing writers working now Many have seen the tendency among Irish writers, from Joyce and Beckett up to Eimear McBride, towards experimentation as originating in this sense of foundational linguistic dispossession. With this novel, Duncan proves himself to be one of the most subtle explorers of this condition writing today His best novel yet: a darkly ruminative tale of exile and endeavour, under whose surface move the tectonic plates of the twentieth century Not a huge number of literary novels tackle the world of work. Out of this rather unusual material Adrian Duncan has crafted a quiet, beautifully written, intellectually provocative and compelling story, an assured blend of mastery and mystery. A stunning novel of landscape ... No other novel I have read in some time has left such an unsettling impression...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781788169738
  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Tuskar Rock
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Sub Title: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year
  • Width: 128 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1788169735
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jun 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 170 gr


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