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.
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Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy nasceu em Joanesburgo, África do Sul, em 1959. É autora de sete romances e foi indicada duas vezes ao Goldsmiths Prize e três vezes ao Man Booker Prize. Já teve obras encenadas pela Royal Shakespeare Company e sua coletânea de contos, <i>Black Vodka</i>, foi indicada para o International Frank O’Connor Short Story Award. Membro da Royal Society of Literature, Levy é também autora de uma trilogia de memórias formalmente inovadora, sua “Autobiografia Viva”, da qual <i>Coisas que não quero saber</i> e <i>O custo de vida</i>, primeiro e segundo volumes, ganharam o Prix Femina Etranger 2020.
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