The Man Who Saw Everything

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 EuropeThe Times
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Its like this, Saul Adler.
No, its like this, Jennifer Moreau.

In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West.

But in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again . . .
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A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing. Thoroughly grippingSunday Telegraph

Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the pageIndependent

Levy splices time in artfully believable, mesmerizing strokesLambda Literary

Skewering totalitarianism - from the state, to the family, to the strictures of the male gaze - Levy explodes conventional narrative to explore the individuals place and culpability within historyGuardian

An utterly beguiling fever dreamDaily Telegraph