August Blue

<b>A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of <i>The Man Who Saw Everything</i> and <i>The Cost of Living</i>.<br /><br /></b>In Athens, a woman named Elsa glimpses her identical double. The other woman is buying two mechanical dancing horses. Elsa spends a month in pursuit of this enigmatic twin—a search that mounts to an uncanny, erotic encounter in a summer rainstorm.<br /><br />Deborah Levy's <i>August Blue</i> is a story of split selves, wayward selves, femininities, sexualities, avatars, shadows, reflections, alter egos, and the twin poles of compassion and cruelty that exist within all of us.