Love Notes from a German Building Site

Paul, a young Irish engineer, follows his girlfriend to Berlin, and begins work on the renovation of a commercial building in Alexanderplatz. Wrestling with a new language, on a site running behind schedule, and with a relationship in flux, he becomes increasingly untethered.

Set against the structural evolution of a sprawling city, this meditation on language, memory and yearning is underpinned by the site’s physical reality. As the narrator explores the mind’s fragile architecture, he begins to map his own strange geography through a series of notebooks, or‘Love Notes’.

This is at once a treatise on language, memory, building and desire, relayed in translucent Sebaldian prose in a voice new to Irish fiction.

• Author
• Adrian Duncan

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 216

• Publisher
• The Lilliput Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781843517542

• Genres
• fiction, ireland, novels

• Release date
• 2019