Lions of Grunewald

Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down. Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor whos been fted 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, Weavers 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 childrens drawings to minute recollections of dreams, Lions of the Grunewald isin the authors own wordsa missionary stew, marvelously served up in Aidan Higginss inimitable style.