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The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
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Length 6 hours 5 minutes
Language English
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***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***

Brought to you by Penguin.


Electrifying and audacious, an unmissable new novel about old and new Europe, old and new love, from the twice-Man Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home

'The man who had nearly run me over had touched my hair, as if he were touching a statue or something without a heartbeat...'

In 1988 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is apparently fine; he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road.

Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin, two months before the Wall comes down. There he will encounter - significantly - both his assigned translator and his translator's sister, who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult, authoritarian father. And he will befriend a hippy, Rainer, who may or may not be a Stasi agent, but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age.

Slipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail, Deborah Levy's electrifying The Man Who Saw Everything examines what we see and what we fail to see, the grave crime of carelessness, the weight of history and our ruinous attempts to shrug it off.

'Levy writes on the high wire, unfalteringly' Marina Warner

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy: Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Reviews

An utterly beguiling fever dream of a novel... Its sheer technical bravura places it head and shoulder above pretty much everything else on the [Booker] longlist Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing... Increasingly surreal and thoroughly gripping One of the big stories in English fiction this decade has been the return and triumph of Deborah Levy... You would call her example inspiring if it weren't clearly impossible to emulate An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of the 20th century Europe Charged with themes spanning memory and mortality, beauty and time, it's as electrifying as it is mysterious Intelligent and supple...a dizzying tale of life across time and borders It's clever, raw and doesn't play by any rules Superbly crafted, enigmatic, tantalizing... Levy defies gravity in a daring, time-bending new novel... Head-spinning and playful, her writing offers sophistication and delightful artistry One of the best books I have ever read playful, consistently surprising...Levy brilliantly plumbs the divide between the self and others Exquisite... A brilliant Booker nominee... Ultimately, Levy is concerned with power โ€“ the forms it takes in our lives, the extent to which it is something we both possess and are subjected to In one short and sly book after another, she writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both Expand reviews
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