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