Love Notes from a German Building Site is a strange, oblique, haunted work of quiet meditative intelligence ... some of the finest writing on love Ive read in recent memory. ROB DOYLE, AUTHOR OF HeRe ARe THe YouNG MeN The best book I have read in years it contains that magical balance of mastery and uncertainty and recklessness that creates something new in literature ... a perfect depiction of love, and of desire and struggle. GREG BAXTER, AUTHOR OF A PRePARATioN FoR DeATH With elegance and precision, this beautiful book shows the forces that act on the structures of buildings and those that impact on relationships. WENDY ERSKINE, AUTHOR OF SWeeT HoMe At the heart of the novel is the question of language, German as a set of signs, but also the world itself as a set of signs waiting to be interpreted by the protagonist, who is created in this book with an acute and painstaking emotional accuracy. -- Colm Toibin Adrian Duncans quietly reflective novel brings to life an engineers work in Berlin. -- Sarah Gilmartin * The Irish Times * This book is an excellent and a daring debut. Daring, because of the unconventional narrative style filled with meditations and well-meaning digressions. The notes and musings wrap themselves like cotton candy around the plot, which, like the stick, holds it together while being the least important aspect. -- Shrinidhi Kalwad * Dublin Inquirer * What Duncan presents in his short novel is a wonderfully-crafted, beautifully-blended hybrid. -- Grace Keane * RTE *
