Sabbatical in Leipzig: Shortlisted for the 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Main [Pehme köide]

He brings a mixture of the exact and the visionary . . . an original voice, a writer who has come to recreate the world on his own terms. * Colm Toibin * One of the most important, original and intriguing writers working now -- Niamh Campbell , author of We Were Happy A book such as W.G. Sebald might have written, had he been an Irish Engineer. A quietly compelling novel from a writer of real daring and poise -- Vona Groarke, author of Other People's Houses Haunting and devastating * Dublin Review of Books * Duncan has a sensibility and a course of investigation utterly his own -- Rob Doyle , author of Threshold Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose * Irish Times * Its plainspoken, obsessive commitment to life as an engineering project makes no attempt to bring the reader into a blunt-edged or humanist vision of engineer-as-symbol. It's far, far more intelligent than that. * Niamh Campbell * Delightfully weird ... conjuring a deep and strange sense of stillness * Sunday Times * Highly satisfying to read * Buzz Magazine *