The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy - ISBN: 9780241977606
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Two accidents, two eras, one man piecing together a fractured life.

The Man Who Saw Everything

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    15 April 2020

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Summary

The unmissable, Booker Prize-longlisted novel from the critically acclaimed author of Hot Milk

In 1988, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Rd crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where he will have more sex (with several members of the same family), harvest mushrooms in the rain, bury his dead father in a matchbox and get on the wrong side of the Stasi.

In 2016, Saul is hit by a car on…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241977606
ISBN-10:0241977606
Author:Deborah Levy
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:15 April 2020
Weight:151g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 12mm
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Critics Review

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

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 * Daily Telegraph *Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page * Independent *A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing… Increasingly surreal and thoroughly gripping * Sunday Telegraph *Exquisite… A brilliant Booker nominee… Ultimately, Levy is concerned with power – the forms it takes in our lives, the extent to which it is something we both possess and are subjected to * Guardian *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 * New Statesman *An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of the 20th century Europe * The Times *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 * The Atlantic *Charged with themes spanning memory and mortality, beauty and time, it’s as electrifying as it is mysterious * Mail on Sunday *Intelligent and supple…a dizzying tale of life across time and borders * Financial Times *It’s clever, raw and doesn’t play by any rules * Evening Standard *

About The Author

Deborah Levy

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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