August Blue

Resumen del libro

If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitted our feelings to each other across three countries.'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. 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. So begins a journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who bought the dancing horses.

A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, August Blue uncovers the ways in which we seek to lose an old story, find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew. Praise for Deborah Levy's 'Living Autobiography''Her reflections on domesticity, freedom and romance are so beautiful, I found myself underlining multiple sentences a page. Wry, warm and uplifting, it's a book I'll return to again and again' Stylist' Levy's living autobiography series is a glittering triple echo of books that are as much philosophical discourse as a manifesto for living and writing' Financial Times

Biografía del autor

P B Deborah Levy /B (Johannesburgo, 1959) es novelista, dramaturga y poeta británica. Es autora de siete novelas: I Beautiful Mutants /I (1986), I Swallowing Geography /I (1993), I The Unloved /I (1994), I Billy x{0026} Girl /I (1996), I Nadando a casa /I (2015), I Leche caliente /I (2018) y I El hombre que lo vio todo /I , de próxima publicación en Literatura Random House. I Nadando a casa /I fue finalista del Man Booker Prize y del Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize en 2012, y I Leche caliente /I fue seleccionada para el Man Booker Prize y el Goldsmiths Prize en 2016. Deborah Levy es también autora de una colección de cuentos, I Black Vodka /I (2013), finalista del BBC International Short Story Award y del Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Ha escrito para la Royal Shakespeare Company y para la BBC. I Cosas que no quiero saber /I (2020), I El coste de vivir /I (2020) y I Una casa propia /I (2022) forman su autobiografía en construcción . Los dos primeros volúmenes recibieron el Premio Fémina Étranger.<br>