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The Geometer Lobachevsky: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year - Hardcover
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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
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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.
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- PublisherTuskar Rock
- Publication date2022
- ISBN 10 1788169727
- ISBN 13 9781788169721
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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ISBN 10: 1788169727
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Tom Etherington (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of largely orange jacket and spine, some very slight damp cockling to bottom of front and back jackets not affecting underlying boards, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 200pp. 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. Quite scarce in this first impression. Seller Inventory # 011022
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