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The Man Who Saw Everything
- Author
- Deborah Levy
- Narrator
- George Blagden
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 15 October 2019
- Run Time
- 6 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize • Shortlisted for the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize • Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction • A CBC Best International Fiction of 2019 selection • One of The Sunday Times’ (UK) “picks of the best paperbacks”
An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist.
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. 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. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life—and this story of good intentions and reckless actions.
The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. 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. Here, Levy traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries—feminine and masculine, East and West, past and present—to reveal the full spectrum of our world.
"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
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Details
- Author
- Deborah Levy
- Narrator
- George Blagden
- Duration
- 6 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781980066842
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize • Shortlisted for the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize • Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction • A CBC Best International Fiction of 2019 selection • One of The Sunday Times’ (UK) “picks of the best paperbacks” An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. 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. 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. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life—and this story of good intentions and reckless actions. The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. 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. Here, Levy traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries—feminine and masculine, East and West, past and present—to reveal the full spectrum of our world. "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
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