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Lions of Grunewald
Series: Irish Literature
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Lions of Grunewald
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Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down.
Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who's been feted and flattered but has seen better days, has come to the great divided city as a guest of DILDO (Deutsche-Internationale Literatur-Dienst Organization). On arriving, Weaver's life immediately begins to fall apart. Women fight over him. He is not always in the soberest state of mind.
Moving from relatively conventional narrative to deliriously long lists, incorporating everything from children's drawings to minute recollections of dreams, Lions of the Grunewald is—in the author's own words—a "missionary stew," marvellously served up in Aidan Higgins's inimitable style.
Series: Irish Literature
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_The Lions of Grunewald_ by Aidan Higgins is praised for its dazzling prose and the architectural precision of its sentences, capturing readers with its intense literary style. It artfully combines poetic and precise elements, evoking scenes that are both vividly close and distantly painterly. Renowned authors commend Higgins for his ability to move fluidly between intimacy with characters and detached, artistic observation.
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ISBN: 9781628974409
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 December 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 285
About the Author
Aidan Higgins, born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1927, wrote short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and a large body of criticism. A consummate stylist, his writing is lush and complex. His books includeScenes from a Receding Past,Bornholm Night-Ferry,Balcony of Europe, andLangrishe, Go Down, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1966 and was later adapted for television by Harold Pinter. Higgins died in Kinsale, Ireland, in 2015.
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