![]() ![]() ![]() The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. ![]() As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life-and this story of good intentions and reckless actions. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous album cover. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. ![]()
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