The Man Who Saw Everything

Deborah Levy

earliest edition we have, 2019 Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020 208 pages

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. 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. As he waits...

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Man Who Saw Everything edition · 2020 · Penguin Books, Limited · 208 pages · 9780241977606
Man Who Saw Everything edition · 2020 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 208 pages · 9781632869852
The Man Who Saw Everything hardcover · 2019 · Hamish Hamilton · 208 pages · 9780241268025
The Man Who Saw Everything hardcover · 2019 · Bloomsbury Publishing · 200 pages · 9781632869845

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