A Sabbatical in Leipzig: Shortlisted for the 2021 Kerry Group Irish - Novel of the Yea

Informationen zum Autor Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist and writer. His debut novel Love Notes from a German Building Site won the 2019 John McGahern Book Prize. His second novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig (2020) was shortlisted for the Kerry Novel of the Year. His collection of short stories Midfield Dynamo was published in 2021 and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. His third novel, The Geometer Lobachevsky , was published in April 2022. Klappentext 'Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose' Irish Times Michael has been away from Ireland for most of his life and lives alone in Bilbao after the death of Catherine, his girlfriend. Each day he listens to two versions of the same piece of music before walking the same route to visit Richard Serra's enormous installation, The Matter of Time, in the Guggenheim. As he walks, his thoughts circle around the five-year period of mental agitation spent in Leipzig with Catherine. This 'sabbatical', caused by the stress of his job and the suicide of a former colleague, splits his career as an engineer into two distinct parts. Intensely realistic, mapped out like Michael's intricate drawings, this is a novel of precision and beguiling intelligence. Vorwort 'Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose' Irish Times Zusammenfassung 'A book such as W. G. Sebald might have written, had be been an Irish engineer' Vona Groarke

Product details

• Authors: ADRIAN DUNCAN, Adrian Duncan
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781788169707
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-970-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / General, Fiction & related items, Narrative theme: Interior life, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary