At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. Now she is in Athens, watching as another young woman, a stranger but uncannily familiar - almost her double - purchases a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market.Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history. So begins a journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who bought the dancing horses.A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, August Blue uncovers the ways in which we seek to lose an old story, find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew.

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy''s critically acclaimed ''Living Autobiography''.''A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life'' The Evening Standard_________________________________''I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate, owned by patriarchy? In this sense, Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it, sell and inherit it - but we must also knock it down.''Following the critical acclaim of Things I Don''t Want to Know and The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy''s ''Living Autobiography'' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it._________________________________''Real Estate is a book to dive into. Come on in, the water''s lovely'' The Daily Telegraph''Her reflections on domesticity, freedom and romance are so beautiful, I found myself underlining multiple sentences a page. Wry, warm and uplifting, it''s a book I''ll return to again and again'' Stylist''[Levy''s living autobiography series is] a glittering triple echo of books that are as much philosophical discourse as a manifesto for living and writing'' Financial Times

What does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom? In this dazzling memoir, Deborah Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour, pragmatism, and profoundly resonant wisdom. Reflecting on the period when she wrote the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Hot Milk - when her mother was dying, her daughters were leaving home, her marriage was coming to an end - she is characteristically eloquent on the social expectations and surreal realities of daily life. And expanding far beyond these bounds, she describes a uniquely frank, wise and thrilling manifesto for female experience: embracing the exhilarating terror of freedom, seeking to understand what that freedom could mean and how it might feel.

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Román nominovaný na Man Booker Prize 2016 Mladá antropoložka Sofia se již celé roky snaží vyřešit záhadu matčiny nevysvětlitelné choroby. Z Rose a jejích věčných nářků a stížností je už celá zničená, ale na druhé straně pro ni představují únik před vlastním neuspokojivým životem, za který se stále zdráhá převzít zodpovědnost. Společně s matkou odcestují na vyprahlé pobřeží Španělska, kde hodlají navštívit věhlasného lékaře, do něhož vkládají naději, že by mohl vyléčit Rosino matoucí ochrnutí. Je to její poslední šance. Doktor Gómez však používá velmi zvláštní metody, které mají pramálo společného s klasickou medicínou, a jak léčba pokračuje, Rosin stav se i pro něj stává stále větší záhadou. Krize ve vztahu mezi matkou a dcerou se stupňuje a rozptýlení hledající Sofia se zaplétá do svůdné a pomíjivé milostné aféry. Tento takřka snový hypnotický příběh o síle ženy je jako labyrint plný tužeb, pudů a surrealisticky přesvědčivé logiky. Autorka v něm prozkoumává otázky lidské sexuality, potlačovaného hněvu, svůdnosti sklouznutí k hypochondrii a užívání farmaceutik i prazvláštní povahu mateřství a zároveň oslavuje hodnotu experimentování se životem – hodnotu zvídavosti, prostého úžasu a snahy žít naplno.

The first in Deborah Levy''s essential three-part ''Living Autobiography'' on writing and womanhood. ''Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly . . . Subtle, unpredictable, surprising'' Guardian_________________________________ Taking George Orwell''s famous essay, ''Why I Write'', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory as a young woman and shape it to her need. Things I Don''t Want to Know is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers.The final two instalments in Deborah Levy''s ''Living Autobiography'', The Cost of Living and Real Estate, are available now. _________________________________''Superb sharpness and originality of imagination. An inspiring work of writing'' Marina Warner''An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield'' Sunday Times''A writer whose anger and confusion in the face of the world transform into poetic flights of fancy . . . which always feel marvellously right'' Independent

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the author of Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw Everything ''Propulsive, uncanny, dreamlike. A feverish coming-of-age novel'' Daily Telegraph ''A triumph of storytelling'' Literary Review_________________________________''Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor of a bar built on the beach. My laptop has all my life in it and knows more about me than anyone else. So what I am saying is that if it is broken, so am I . . .''Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness and the doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez - a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years. Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike and utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern and timeless._________________________________''Perfectly crafted. So mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell'' Independent on Sunday ''Hot Milk treads a sweaty, sun-drenched path into the history books. A properly great novel'' Romola Garai ''Hot Milk is an extraordinary novel, beautifully rich, vividly atmospheric and psychologically complex... Every man and woman should read it'' Bernardine Evaristo ''Hypnotic... This novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turned'' Observer ''Terrific, sizzling with heat and sexuality . . . You devour it in one sitting'' Radio Times

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Francouzská Riviéra, rodinka na dovolené. Osoby a obsazení: Joe je uznávaný básník, jeho manželka Isabel pracuje jako reportérka. Plus pubertální dcera plus dva rodinní přátelé. Tuhle idylku naruší neznámá dívka, která se jednou ráno koupe nahá v jejich bazénu. Kitty je výstřední, nevypočitatelná, možná duševně narušená mladá žena… Během jednoho týdne se životy všech obrátí naruby.

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