Deborah Levy | The Cost of Living

Deborah Levy | The Cost of LivingReceived Best German Book Design Award 2021 & German Design Award 2022 The Guardian ranked The Cost of Living one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Our Choice Deborah Levy started one of the most unusual literary adventures of the past decade. Writing her autobiography in three parts regarding a special phase of her life. The Cost of Living describes the end of her marriage and a new start not knowing what will come next, not knowing that she

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and the PEN Pinter Prize (2018)

and a successful businesswoman

Jakob Runge

Letterpress printing: Die Lettertypen Berlin on a 1954 Heidelberg Cyinder

in an acid green

only in exceptional cases

celebrating rather than hiding the imperfections inherent in the manual process

designed by Susanna Dulkinys

” which is one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time

for which he won the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award