Name: Flesh
SKU: 64204602
Price: 775.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: David Szalay
ISBN: 9780224099783

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Szalay

Publisher

Jonathan Cape Ltd

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.2x16.3x3.2 cm

ISBN13

9780224099783

Flesh

David Szalay (Author) · Jonathan Cape Ltd · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Flesh"

***Winner of The Booker Prize 2025***

From Booker shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp

Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.

As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century’s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.

Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.

Flesh is at once intricate and spacious, it flows both fast and deep. There's brilliance on every page. Szalay is an ingenious conductor of time, and of the fates and forces that give shape to a life - Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital

Flesh is a wonderful novel – so brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money - David Nicholls

A superb novel, written with great terse authority and allure: mordant, knowing and disturbingly wise - William Boyd

This is a marvellous novel. Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer - Tessa Hadley

‘Refreshing, illuminating and true… a moving work of art with a plot that compels and surprises and devastates’ - Financial Times

David Szalay

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David Szalay es autor de cinco obras de ficción: Primavera, El inocente, Londres y el sureste, por la que recibió los premios Betty Trask y Geoffrey Faber Memorial; Todo lo que es el hombre, por la que recibió el premio Gordon Burn y el premio Plimpton de ficción, y fue finalista del premio Man Booker; y Turbulencia, ganadora del premio Edge Hill. Nacido en Canadá, se crio en Londres y actualmente reside en Viena. Su obra ha sido traducida a más de veinte idiomas.

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