August Blue

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b><i>BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, TIME MAGAZINE</i></b><br><br><b>'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' <i>Independent</i></b><br><br><b>The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of <i>Hot Milk</i> and<i> Swimming Home</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>So begins a journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who bought the dancing horses.<br><br>A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, <i>August Blue</i> uncovers the ways in which we seek to lose an old story, find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew.<br><br><b>'Deborah Levy writes like a dream and I mean that quite literally' Stuart Kelly, <i>The Scotsman</i><br><br>'A virtuosic novel of identity and breakdown . . . [it] flickers constantly between comedy and darkness. You know you'll read <i>August Blue</i> again' <i>M John Harrison, Guardian</i></b><br><br><i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller, May 2023</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241987889

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 18 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)