EAN: 9780241421314

AUGUST BLUE - DEBORAH LEVY GEBUNDEN

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO FINANCIAL TIMES  GUARDIAN 
INDEPENDENT  TIME MAGAZINE The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author
of Hot Milk and Swimming Home At the height of her career  concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson -
former child prodigy  now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna  mid-performance. Now
she is in Athens  watching as another young woman  a stranger but uncannily familiar - almost
her double - purchases a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the
horses too  but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port  on the run from her
talent and her history. So begins a journey across Europe  shadowed by the elusive woman who
bought the dancing horses. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis  August Blue
uncovers the ways in which we seek to lose an old story  find ourselves in others and create
ourselves anew. 'A writer at the peak of her talents' Lisa Appignanesi'There's no one touching
the brilliance of Deborah Levy's prose today' Lee Rourke'Levy's strength is her originality of
thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson

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