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August Blue

ISBN 
9780241421314
Format 
Hardback
Recommended Price 
R505.00
Published 
June 2023
About the book: 
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 an uncannily familiar young woman purchases the last pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa soon begins a journey across Europe, on the run from her talent and her history, shadowed by the elusive woman with 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.
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About the Author

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including  August Blue, Hot Milk  and  Swimming Home,  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 won the  Prix Femina Étranger.  She has also written for the  Royal Shakespeare Company  and is a Fellow of the  Royal Society of Literature.

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