The Man Who Saw Everything

Beschreibung

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019<BR> SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019<BR> <BR> 'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The Times<BR>_________________________________<BR><BR> 'It's like this, Saul Adler.'<BR> 'No, it's like this, Jennifer Moreau.'<BR><BR> 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. <BR><BR>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 . . .<BR> _________________________________<BR><BR>'A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing.

Thoroughly gripping' Sunday Telegraph<BR><BR> 'Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page' Independent<BR><BR> 'Levy splices time in artfully believable, mesmerizing strokes' Lambda Literary<BR><BR> '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<BR><BR> 'An utterly beguiling fever dream' Daily Telegraph

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