The Geometer Lobachevsky - Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize (Paperback, Main)

'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

General

Imprint:	Tuskar Rock
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2023
First published:	2022
Authors:	Adrian Duncan
Dimensions:	198 x 129mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-78816-973-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	1-78816-973-5
Barcode:	9781788169738

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