The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy Paperback Book 9780241977606

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 An icecold skewering of patriarchy humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe The Times Its like this Saul Adler No its 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 A timebending locationhopping 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 individuals place and culpability within history Guardian An utterly beguiling fever dream Daily Telegraph