By Aidan Higgins
ISBN: 9781628974409
Publication Date: 10/18/2022
Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down.
Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who's been fêted 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," marvelously served up in Aidan Higgins's inimitable style.
Other Books by Aidan Higgins
Aidan Higgins: Fragility of Form
Biographical Information
Aidan Higgins (1927-2015) was an Iris writer of short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and literary criticism. His books include Scenes from a Receding Past, Bornholm Night-Ferry, Balcony of Europe, and Langrishe, Go Down, which was adapted for television by Harold Pinter.