The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home.
'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.'
The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home.
'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.'
Elsa M. Anderson is a classical piano virtuoso. In a flea market in Athens, she watches an enigmatic woman buy two mechanical dancing horses. Is it possible that the woman who is so enchanted with the horses is her living double? Is she also looking for reasons to live?
Chasing their doubles across Europe, the two women grapple with their preconceived conceptions of the world and each other, culminating in a final encounter in a fateful summer rainstorm.
A vivid portrait of a long-held identity coming apart, August Blue expands our understanding of the ways in which we seek to find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew.
Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy: Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and she won the Prix Femina Etranger in 2020. Her short...
Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy: Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and she won the Prix Femina Etranger in 2020. Her short story collection, Black Vodka, was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Anyway, he continued, what I really missed in the lockdowns was buying a coffee. Sipping a flat white. If my identity is so fragile it depends on a flat white to keep it together, I can't see the point of these years I've spent reading difficult theory and philosophy. Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom. (查看原文)
bought AUGUST BLUE last year in Melb but finally opened it this August, a dreamlike and smooth reading experience. the blue hair will disappear as the roots grow, like the sultry summer will end with ...bought AUGUST BLUE last year in Melb but finally opened it this August, a dreamlike and smooth reading experience. the blue hair will disappear as the roots grow, like the sultry summer will end with connections revealing. it’s so mesmerizing, nostalgic, literal and melancholic that can dig a peaceful pit and allow the salt water flowing in.(展开)
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0 有用 Beshipperaff 2024-07-27 15:14:23 陕西
赶在八月之前读完，希望八月不那么蓝
0 有用 geographyiii 2024-08-19 17:16:17 英国
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4 有用 威叔在香港 2023-08-04 18:09:29 中国香港
2023.08.04. 久仰大名，第一次读Deborah Levy。可以看得出她的确是那种“人狠话不多”的作家，不到250页、排版稀疏的一本小书，可以说每个字每段话都是精心洗练过的，这种奉行“少即是多”的作家，是柳源汉雅那类作家的完全相反面。小说讲述钢琴神童、30出头已是大师演奏家Elsa在维也纳金色大厅演奏拉赫玛尼诺夫第二钢琴协奏曲（已是文艺电影/文学标配…）时突然失误并神经质的离场，随后在街市... 2023.08.04. 久仰大名，第一次读Deborah Levy。可以看得出她的确是那种“人狠话不多”的作家，不到250页、排版稀疏的一本小书，可以说每个字每段话都是精心洗练过的，这种奉行“少即是多”的作家，是柳源汉雅那类作家的完全相反面。小说讲述钢琴神童、30出头已是大师演奏家Elsa在维也纳金色大厅演奏拉赫玛尼诺夫第二钢琴协奏曲（已是文艺电影/文学标配…）时突然失误并神经质的离场，随后在街市看到自己的“分身”，并开始的一系列故事。通篇的情节都写的非常诗意，围绕女主过去成长经历（缺失的母亲、与养父/钢琴老师的关系）和当下现状（职业困境+寻找神秘分身）展开，但故事本身其实是简单的，与分身最终的汇合亦可看成是女主与自我另一面的交流甚至和解。文笔好、但故事性不算强，没能入围布克长名单不算可惜。 (展开)
1 有用 SUAVEN 2023-05-29 05:02:56 英国
很难评价，读的是英文原版，有些部分让我觉得眼前一亮，有些部分却难以理解。很难评价
0 有用 jesuisqui 2024-09-01 17:12:55 北京
bought AUGUST BLUE last year in Melb but finally opened it this August, a dreamlike and smooth reading experience. the blue hair will disappear as the roots grow, like the sultry summer will end with ... bought AUGUST BLUE last year in Melb but finally opened it this August, a dreamlike and smooth reading experience. the blue hair will disappear as the roots grow, like the sultry summer will end with connections revealing. it’s so mesmerizing, nostalgic, literal and melancholic that can dig a peaceful pit and allow the salt water flowing in. (展开)