August Blue

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of <i>The Man Who Saw Everything</i> and <i>The Cost of Living</i>.</b><br><br>At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson-former child prodigy, now in her thirties-walks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 <i>August Blue</i> uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselves anew.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780374602048

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

211 x 143 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)