# August Blue

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- Book: [August Blue](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-levy/august-blue) ([August Blue.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-levy/august-blue.md))
- Authors: [Deborah Levy](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-levy)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-788-9
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2024-05-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 an uncannily familiar young woman purchases the last pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa soon begins a journey across Europe, on the run from her talent and her history, shadowed by the elusive woman with 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.