Levy defies gravity in a daring, time-bending new novel.”” ― Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews “A superbly crafted, enigmatic new story from an author of note.In a relatively short book, Levy spins an extraordinary web of connection, a dreamscape in which plangent images like a pearl necklace, a spilled drink, or the petals of a tree recur like soft chimes.Head-spinning and playful yet translucent, Levy's writing offers sophistication and delightful artistry. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

Here, Levy traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries-feminine and masculine, It greets the specters that come back to haunt old and new love, previous and current incarnations of Europe, conscious and unconscious transgressions, and real and imagined betrayals, while investigating the cyclic nature of history and its reinvention by people in power. The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous album cover. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home.

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