![]() ![]() ![]() It is 1950, and Ireland is embarking on a new era of state-powered electricity generation inspired by the Soviet’s expertise in this subject area. The Geometer Lobachevsky, which has been shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year, is a unique story about a Russian man, Nikolai Lobachevsky, who finds himself in Ireland helping survey a peatland bog in the Midlands. It’s not every day you read a novel that is about surveying, peat extraction, electricity generation and exile - so full points to Berlin-based Irish writer Adrian Duncan for originality! A Russian emigré in Ireland ![]() When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology. Fiction – Kindle edition Tuskar Rock 166 pages 2022. ![]()
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