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.
The Man Who Saw Everything - Deborah Levy
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