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Flesh, the WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025, is David Szalay's captivating and astonishingly moving novel about the forces that make and break our lives. Through chance, luck and choice, one man's life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of... Read More
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Flesh

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Flesh, the WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025, is David Szalay's captivating and astonishingly moving novel about the forces that make and break our lives.

Through chance, luck and choice, one man's life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London...

Fifteen-year-old Istvan 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, Istvan 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529932423

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 March 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 368

About the Author

David Szalay is the author of six works of fiction, including London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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