The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

Saul Adler is a young man who is a historian specializing in the Eastern Block. He thinks he is in love with a young art student in London, his friend a translator in East Germany and has an unusual relationship with the translator's sister. After a car accident in the famous crosswalk of Abbey Road, Saul's memories begin to be unfocused. The result is the reader is not sure what really happened to Saul and what memories are really just his desire to get it right. Saul's life cascades into a million different paths until we come to him in a hospital room, middle-aged and very ill. Dreams, hopes, sexual awakening, political ghosts and shortcomings all play out before our eyes. Beautifully written but I did have a bit of trouble sorting out the life he wanted with the life he had.