The Man Who Saw Everything

Autor: Levy, Deborah

Editorial: Penguin

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780241268025

Reseña: One of the most exciting books of the year - this new masterpiece from Deborah Levy is the perfect gift LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 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 An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy humanity and the darkness of the 20th century Europe The Times The man who had nearly run me over had touched my hair as if he were touching a statue or something without a heartbeat... In 1988 Saul Adler (a narcissistic young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is apparently fine he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend Jennifer Moreau. They have sex then break up but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road. Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin two months before the Wall comes down. There he will encounter - significantly - both his assigned translator and his translators sister who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult authoritarian father. And he will befriend a hippy Rainer who may or may not be a Stasi agent but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age. Slipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail Deborah Levys electrifying The Man Who Saw Everything examines what we see and what we fail to see the grave crime of carelessness the weight of history and our ruinous attempts to shrug it off. Levy writes on the high wire unfalteringly Marina Warner Its clever raw and doesnt play by any rules Evening Standard Intelligent and supple...a dizzying tale of life across time and borders Finanical Times