The Man Who Saw Everything
About this book
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 German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous album cover. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life.
Subjects
English literatureNew York Times reviewedFiction, psychologicalFiction, politicalFiction, jewishGermany, fictionFictionHistoriansLife change eventsFICTION / LiteraryFICTION / LGBT / GeneralFICTION / PsychologicalAbbey Road Studios (London, England)Traffic accident victimsMan-woman relationshipBritish