August Blue

August Blue is a story of split selves, wayward selves, femininities, sexualities, avatars, shadows, reflections, alter-egos, and the twin poles of compassion and cruelty that exist within all of us–by Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.

In Athens, a woman named Elsa glimpses her identical double. The other woman is buying two mechanical dancing horses. Elsa spends a month in pursuit of this enigmatic twin–a search that mounts to an uncanny, erotic encounter in a summer rainstorm.

One of the most intellectually exciting writers in Britain today. –New York Times

[Levy] unspools big odysseys. –The Atlantic

Levy has a gift for imbuing ordinary observations with the magic of metaphor … The ordinary stuff of modern life [is] made radiant. –The New Yorker