Deborah Levy
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To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman.
The Cost of Living explores the subtle erasure of women's names, spaces, and stories in the modern everyday. In this "living autobiography" infused with warmth and humor, Deborah Levy critiques the roles that society assigns to us and reflects...
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In 1988 Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, is invited to Communist East Berlin to write a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a token of gratitude, Saul wants to give his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic, and also his host, a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road. While he waits for his photographer to arrive, he's hit by a car. This will change the trajectory of his life.
6) August blue
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Elsa M. Anderson is a classical piano virtuoso. In a flea market in Athens, she watches an enigmatic woman buy two mechanical dancing horses. Is it possible that the woman who is so enchanted with the horses is her living double? Is she also looking for reasons to live? Chasing their doubles across Europe, the two women grapple with their conceptions of the world and each other, culminating in a final encounter in a fateful summer rainstorm. A vivid...
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