Slipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail, Deborah Levy's electrifying new novel examines what we see and what we fail to see, until we encounter the spectres of history - both the world's and our own. Her early novels included Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography and Billy & Girl.

She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre her plays were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company before focusing on prose fiction. A number of people gather at his bedside. Deborah Levy FRSL (born 6 August 1959) is a British novelist, playwright and poet. The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levyis. He is rushed to hospital, where he spends the following days slipping in and out of consciousness, and in and out of memories of the past. The Man Who Saw Everything has already been longlisted for the Booker prize a third shortlisting for Levy would be well deserved. In 2016, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. And he will befriend a hippy, Rainer, who may or may not be a Stasi agent, but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult, authoritarian father. There he will encounter - significantly - both his assigned translator and his translator's sister, who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin, two months before the Wall comes down. They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road. The man who saw everything book levy deborah it is 1988 and saul adler a narcissistic young historian has been invited to munist east berlin to do research in. He is apparently fine he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. In 1989 Saul Adler ( a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road.

The man who saw everything deborah levy