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AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'An original voice' Colm Tóibín'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish TimesOne winter, in a secluded Alpine city, Irish sculptor John Molloy meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life. Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking him to pray for the speedy death of an ailing friend. Over a day-long odyssey through the ancient streets and churches of Bologna, John is forced to confront his present, his past and the bedrock of his psyche. A delicately crafted novel of two halves, a decade apart, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth is a masterful excavation of human desires, inhibitions and the patterns of habit to which we unwittingly fall prey.

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Revelatory ... A deliberative and delicate reading experience * Guardian * Uncanny, strange and exquisite * Financial Times * Makes you remember why you read * Sunday Post *

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Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist and writer. He is the author of Love Notes from a German Building Site, which won the John McGahern Book Prize, A Sabbatical in Leipzig, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Novel of the Year, and The Geometer Lobachevsky. The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth is his fourth novel.

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