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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019
'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The Times
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'It's like this, Saul Adler.'
'No, it's like this, Jennifer Moreau.'
In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on…
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1 author picked The Man Who Saw Everything as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’ve always been a sucker for an unreliable narrator and Saul Adler turns out to be one of the most unreliable of all time.
He’s a character whose views about his relationships with other people we can’t help but grow to distrust, and who invites dislike. Hit by a car on London’s Abbey Road in 1988, while his girlfriend is preparing to take a photo, his life-story becomes like pieces of a broken mirror, except the shards ultimately reflect two contrasting trajectories.
I love the way Deborah Levy layers and intertwines these versions of his life, back and forward through…
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