British writer Deborah Levy’s extraordinary fictions have been called “menacing” and “hypnotic” and have earned her three Booker nominations. Perhaps “Kafkaesque” is appropriate for her seventh novel, “The Man Who Saw Everything,” which slips in and out of time after its narrator, Saul, is struck by a car on London’s Abbey Road. Levy’s style is crisp, taut, even as she writes a dreamlike story. The narrator, Saul, moves between two eras: present day and 1980s Berlin. Waiting for Jennifer on Abbey Road — he’ll play the dead, white-suited John Lennon in her Abbey Road zebra-crossing photo — we observe symbols popping into the narrative like uninvited guests.

Source: thestar October 23, 2019 21:33 UTC