Read by: Alix Dunmore
Language: English
Length: 4 hours and 16 minutes
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release date: 2023-06-06
Long-listed, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Financial Times Books of the Year
Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year 2023
Long-listed, The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2023
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.
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, mid-performance.
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.
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 August Blue uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselves anew.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.