MENUReview: August Blue
Deborah Levy’s latest novel is perhaps her most compelling and fulfilling. Elsa, an acclaimed concert pianist, is in Athens when she spies a woman who looks to be her exact double. Thus begins a journey across Europe where this doppleganger is always somewhere near, just in the fringes of her vision. As Elsa’s obsession increases against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic, the lines between fiction and reality blur with Elsa struggling to maintain her identity. “My startling thought … Read more
