Front cover of Flesh by David Szalay, hardback

Flesh - David Szalay

David Szalay

£18.99
  • Pages · 368 pages
  • Publication Date · 06/03/2025
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**`Brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls`Anyone can pick up Flesh and appreciate it' Jennette McCurdy`Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey`So much searing insight into the way we live now' ObserverThrough chance, luck and choice, one man's life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London - in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our livesFifteen-year-old Istv�n lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he becomes isolated, with his neighbour - a married woman - as his only companion. When a clandestine relationship begins between them, his life spirals out of control. As the years pass, Istv�n moves from the army to the circles of London's elite. His competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth win him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. `An astonishingly moving portrait of a man's life' Booker Prize Judges, 2025`A revelatory novel' Sunday Times`Pure brilliance from the first to the (devastating) last sentence' India Knight`Refreshing, illuminating and true' Financial Times`One of the most astonishing books I've ever read' Dua Lipa`Hugely entertaining, gripping like a thriller' The Times`Visceral and compelling' Gary Stevenson`Exciting, propulsive, emotional' Sarah Jessica Parker*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Independent, GQ and Daily Telegraph*

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