'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 ...' It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of his illustrious namesake, is surveying a bog in the Irish Midlands, where he studies the locals, the land and their ways. One afternoon, soon after he arrives, he receives a telegram calling him back to Leningrad for a 'special appointment'. Lobachevsky may not be a great genius but he is not foolish: he recognises a death sentence when he sees one and leaves to go into hiding on a small island in the Shannon estuary, where the island families harvest seaweed and struggle to split rocks. Here Lobachevsky must think about death, how to avoid it and whether he will ever see his home again
| ISBN: | 9781788169721 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2022 |
| Author: | Adrian Duncan |
| Publisher: | Tuskar Rock an imprint of Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Primary Genre | General Fiction |
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'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 ...' It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of his illustrious namesake, is surveying a bog in the Irish Midlands, where he studies the locals, the land and their ways. One afternoon, soon after he arrives, he receives a telegram calling him back to Leningrad for a 'special appointment'. Lobachevsky may not be a great genius but he is not foolish: he recognises a death sentence when he sees one and leaves to go into hiding on a small island in the Shannon estuary, where the island families harvest seaweed and struggle to split rocks. Here Lobachevsky must think about death, how to avoid it and whether he will ever see his home again
The Geometer Lobachevsky features in the following genres: General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction
The Geometer Lobachevsky is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Geometer Lobachevsky was written by Adrian Duncan and published by Tuskar Rock an imprint of Profile Books Ltd
The Geometer Lobachevsky has 208 pages
