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 StarChild233 2024-01-22 10:52:15 中国香港
开头很引人入胜，越读下去越有些无聊。还是比较喜欢更短小的故事～
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 DAWN 2025-03-13 15:26:47 德国
She found herself
0 有用 izguozi 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)
0 有用 栞 2025-01-20 23:58:56 美国
DNF，说不定会回来重读，但读了她的The Man Who Saw Everything后再读这本，真的就不喜欢，太飘了，文字也不是很喜欢。而且什么自我迷失然后自我寻找这种主题我现在也不是很care。弃，再去看看她别的书。