'Love Notes from a German Building Site is a strange, oblique, haunted work of quiet meditative intelligence ... some of the finest writing on love I've 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 Duncan's quietly reflective novel brings to life an engineer's 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 *
