The Man Who Saw Everything

My first Levy - loved it

I read this while on the flight home from a long visit to Berlin, so the territory and the history of what is addressed in the novel was familiar to me, and yet so much of it surprises–from the warped sense of time and memory, the similarly warped sense of beauty and love, to the erratic thought process of the book's main character, Saul Adler. I don't think the book is perfect and I don't think Levy gets the character of Saul quite right. Nonetheless, it provided excellent distraction on a long flight.

This book was weird and surreal and utterly entrancing. It drew me in and held me. I'm a fast reader, but this made me slow down to read every word and really take it in. I would have loved a little more character development but I understand why it played out the way it did.