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Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher''s Weekly

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.

At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Andersonformer child prodigy, now in her thirtieswalks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance.

Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase 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 her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, Deborah Levy's August Blue uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselv

August Blue

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 6 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9780374602048
      978-0374602048
      ISBN-10 0374602042

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher''s Weekly

      A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.

      At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Andersonformer child prodigy, now in her thirtieswalks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance.

      Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase 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 her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, Deborah Levy's August Blue uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselv

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