Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood in this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power
The Man Who Saw Everything
Written by Deborah Levy
- Longlisted
- The Booker Prize 2019
- Published by Hamish Hamilton
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Deborah Levy's electrifying novel examines the grave crime of carelessness, the weight of history and our ruinous attempts to shrug it off
London, 1988. Saul Adler is a narcissistic young historian is hit by a car on 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 East Germany, he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Then, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross Abbey Road again…
Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels, and she has been shortlisted twice for the Goldsmiths Prize and three times for the Booker Prize
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Profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy’s pulsating novel reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves