![]() ![]() While I won’t spoil the twist here, it does work as a grand and effective metaphor for discussing the book’s primary focus: Saul’s absentmindedness. That is, until the book’s half-way point where we are hit with a phenomenal twist that reshapes and elevates not only the entire plot but how we think of Saul. The plot of The Man Who Saw Everything plays out beat for beat in a straightforward manner, with romantic drama making up the bulk of what reigns you in and holds your attention. ![]() ![]() “I wanted to tell Jennifer that I loved her, but I thought it might put her off me.” From there, he heads to communist East Berlin, carrying a matchbox-full of his father’s ashes, and forms a friendship with Walter Müller which blossoms into a sexual love affair. Saul Adler promptly gets up, makes little fuss, and carries on to the home of his student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau, where he makes a slap-dash marriage proposal and is met with a breakup instead. It’s 1988, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Saul is crossing Abbey Road when he’s knocked down by a car. Raised by a communist father in England, by the rules and guidelines of socialism, Saul is now an academic in his late twenties, studying the history and politics of communist nations in Eastern Europe. ![]()
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