Longlisted for the 2019 Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 Goldsmiths PrizeFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionAn electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist.It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the Ger