August Blue

August Blue

By Deborah Levy
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“Alix Dunmore’s lilting voice and English accent capture the musicality of this audiobook. The cadence of her narration works well, and her tones mimic the interior conflicts of Elsa…Levy expertly creates scenes packed with meaning as Elsa comes to understand her provenance, passion, and place in the world. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2023

Among longlisted titles for Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 2023

Among longlisted titles for Financial Times Books of the Year, 2023

Among longlisted titles for Barnes and Noble Best New 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.