Ratings11
Average rating3.5
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.[Bokinfo].
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I've been sitting with this book for a couple of days now because quite frankly I'm not sure I get it. I liked the main character well enough and her general sense of unease as well as the way Levy captured the Covid/”post-Covid” weirdness so but I can't help but feel like I missed something.
The writing style was pleasant and there's probably a lot about the imagery that I could sit with and pick apart so points for that (in other words, if you were the kid who enjoyed thinking about why the curtains were blue, you'll like this one).