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An emotionally resonant novel that confronts the deeply personal effects of war by a writer at the height of his power. Everything changes during a tragic roadside incursion when a routine patrol suddenly turns fatal. And Henry, who survives, knows in his heart that he is responsible. Upon returning home, now tormented by guilt in addition to ennui, he begins to feel even more rootless and restless until the question of his deceased friend's summer...
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Hamish Hamilton
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It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favourable essay about the German Democratic Republic. This novel is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. Deborah Levy traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries - feminine and masculine, East and West, past and present...
3) Summer
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"In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown--and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.This is a story about people on the brink of change. The're family, but they think they're strangers. So: Where does family begin? And what...
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