{"product_id":"man-who-saw-everything","title":"Man Who Saw Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019\u003cbr\u003e SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e_________________________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e''It''s like this, Saul Adler.''\u003cbr\u003e ''No, it''s like this, Jennifer Moreau.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIn 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e_________________________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing. Thoroughly gripping'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Levy splices time in artfully believable, mesmerizing strokes'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Skewering totalitarianism - from the state, to the family, to the strictures of the male gaze - Levy explodes conventional narrative to explore the individual''s place and culpability within history'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''An utterly beguiling fever dream'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317051531646,"sku":"NW9780241977606","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241977606.jpg?v=1778249398","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/man-who-saw-everything","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}