Love Notes from a German Building Site

by Duncan, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9781789546255
• ISBN10: 1789546257
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-01-01
• Publisher: Head of Zeus

Summary

Paul, a young Irish engineer, follows Evelyn 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 narration explores the mind's fragile architecture, he begins to map his own strange geography through a series of notebooks, or "Love notes."

Paul's story will speak to anyone who has known what it is to be in love, or exiled, or simply alone.

Author Biography

Adrian Duncan is an Irish writer and artist based in Ireland and Berlin. He trained and worked as a structural engineer for over a decade, received his chartership from the Institute of Engineers Ireland in 2008 and later returned to university to study fine art. He has written a collection of short stories titled Chicken-Lane Manifesto.