The Man Who Saw Everything (Signed Limited Edition)

Levy, Deborah

ISBN 10: 0241268028 / ISBN 13: 9780241268025

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 2019

About this Item

First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on special publisher's page before title page (name only). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Seller Inventory # Signed-UK-LD-05

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Man Who Saw Everything (Signed Limited ...

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London

Publication Date: 2019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER 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 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.

Slipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail, Deborah Levy's 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

'It's clever, raw and doesn't play by any rules' Evening Standard

'Intelligent and supple...a dizzying tale of life across time and borders' FT

Review:

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)

Superbly crafted, enigmatic, tantalizing... Levy defies gravity in a daring, time-bending new novel... Head-spinning and playful, her writing offers sophistication and delightful artistry (Kirkus (Starred review))

An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of the 20th century Europe (The Times)

It's clever, raw and doesn't play by any rules (Evening Standard)

Intelligent and supple...a dizzying tale of life across time and borders (FT)

a brilliant Booker nominee (Guardian)

One of the big stories in English fiction this decade has been the return and triumph of Deborah Levy...You would call her example inspiring if it weren't clearly impossible to emulate. (New Statesman)