August Blue Author:Deborah Levy At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson -- former child prodigy, now in her thirties -- walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. — Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She ... more »drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.
So begins her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double.« less