![]() And he will befriend a hippy, Rainer, who may or may not be a Stasi agent, but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult, authoritarian father. There he will encounter - significantly - both his assigned translator and his translator's sister, who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin, two months before the Wall comes down. They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road. He is apparently fine he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. In 1988 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. 'The man who had nearly run me over had touched my hair, as if he were touching a statue or something without a heartbeat.' ![]() ![]() Electrifying and audacious, an unmissable new novel about old and new Europe, old and new love, from the twice-Man Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home ![]()
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