{"product_id":"deborah-levy-the-man-who-saw-everything-2019","title":"Deborah Levy: The Man Who Saw Everything [2019]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most exciting books of the year - this new masterpiece from Deborah Levy is the perfect gift \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of the 20th century Europe' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The man who had nearly run me over had touched my hair, as if he were touching a statue or something without a heartbeat...'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaul 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 translator's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail, Deborah Levy's electrifying \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Saw Everything\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Levy writes on the high wire, unfalteringly'  Marina Warner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's clever, raw and doesn't play by any rules' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Intelligent and supple...a dizzying tale of life across time and borders' \u003ci\u003eFinanical Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levy, Deborah","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53201182196051,"sku":"XV80241268025","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/deborah-levy-the-man-who-saw-everything-2019","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}