Tag: John McGahern Annual Book Prize
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Slow reading: Adrian Duncan’s ‘Love Notes from a German Building Site’
Adrian Duncan‘s Love Notes from a German Building Site (Head of Zeus, 2019) tells Paul’s first-person story as he emigrates from Ireland to Germany to start afresh with his girlfriend, Evelyn. Paul is an engineer by trade, but his relationship with his job is tested and stretched by time spent on a job in Berlin—it…