August Blue Av Deborah Levy

<p><b>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>TIME</i>, <i>Vulture</i>, <i>The Guardian, </i>BBC, <i>The Week</i>, and <i>Publisher''s Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of <i>The Man Who Saw Everything</i> and <i>The Cost of Living</i>.</b><br><br>At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson¿former child prodigy, now in her thirties¿walks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance.<br><br>Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase 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.<br><br>So begins her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, Deborah Levy¿s <i>August Blue</i> uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourse