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The Man Who Saw Everything

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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

Exquisite... A brilliant Booker nominee... Ultimately, Levy is concerned with power &ndash; the forms it takes in our lives, the extent to which it is something we both possess and are subjected to

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

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

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

playful, consistently surprising...Levy brilliantly plumbs the divide between the self and others

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 the Abbey Rd crossing. He is not fine at all; he is rushed to hospital and spends the following days in and out of consciousness, in and out of history. Jennifer is sitting by his bedside. His very-much-not-dead father is sitting by his bedside. Someone important is missing.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 
 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 
 
 'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The Times 
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 'It's like this, Saul Adler.' 
 'No, it's like this, Jennifer Moreau.' 
 
 In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. 
 
But in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again . . . 
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'A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing. Thoroughly gripping' Sunday Telegraph 
 
 'Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page' Independent 
 
 'Levy splices time in artfully believable, mesmerizing strokes' Lambda Literary 
 
 'Skewering totalitarianism - from the state, to the family, to the strictures of the male gaze - Levy explodes conventional narrative to explore the individual's place and culpability within history' Guardian 
 
 'An utterly beguiling fever dream' Daily Telegraph

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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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

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

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

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

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

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