EAN: 9780241987889

AUGUST BLUE - DEBORAH LEVY KARTONIERT (TB)

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER    BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO FINANCIAL TIMES  GUARDIAN 
INDEPENDENT  TIME MAGAZINE    'Levy's lyrical  pitch-perfect prose is an exploration of our
reasons for living  the forces that drive us and the inner music that controls the rhythms of
our dance through life and love' Independent    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.   'Deborah Levy writes like a dream and I mean
that quite literally' Stuart Kelly  The Scotsman   'A virtuosic novel of identity and breakdown
. . . [it] flickers constantly between comedy and darkness. You know you'll read August Blue
again' M John Harrison  Guardian   Sunday Times bestseller  May 2023

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