The Man Who Saw Everything

Superbly crafted, enigmatic, tantalizing... Levy defies gravity in a daring, time-bending new novel... Head-spinning and playful, her writing offers sophistication and delightful artistry

Kirkus (Starred review)

An utterly beguiling fever dream of a novel... Its sheer technical bravura places it head and shoulder above pretty much everything else on the [Booker] longlist

Daily Telegraph

An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of the 20th century Europe

The Times

It's clever, raw and doesn't play by any rules

Evening Standard

Intelligent and supple...a dizzying tale of life across time and borders

Financial Times

One of the big stories in English fiction this decade has been the return and triumph of Deborah Levy... You would call her example inspiring if it weren't clearly impossible to emulate

New Statesman

One of the best books I have ever read

Katherine Angel via Twitter

Charged with themes spanning memory and mortality, beauty and time, it's as electrifying as it is mysterious

Mail on Sunday

A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing... Increasingly surreal and thoroughly gripping

Sunday Telegraph

Exquisite... A brilliant Booker nominee... Ultimately, Levy is concerned with power – the forms it takes in our lives, the extent to which it is something we both possess and are subjected to

Guardian

Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page

Independent

playful, consistently surprising...Levy brilliantly plumbs the divide between the self and others

Publishers Weekly Best Books 2019

In one short and sly book after another, she writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both

The Atlantic