{"product_id":"flesh-paperback-by-david-szalay","title":"Flesh Paperback by David Szalay","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eMcClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-07-07)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e368\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780771078040\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e306.18\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.32 x 13.13 x 2.34\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eAn Indigo Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpare and penetrating, \u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eDAVID SZALAY was born in Montreal in 1974, and moved to the U.K. the following year. He went to Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC. He won the Betty Trask Prize for his first novel, \u003ci\u003eLondon and the South-East\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recently named one of the Telegraph's \"Top 20 British Writers under 40,\" a Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and he won the 2016 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, awarded by the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e for an outstanding contribution to the magazine. His most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eAll That Man Is\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in April 2016. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and won the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. The novel was selected as a Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNPR, \u003c\/i\u003eand BBC Culture, among others. His book of stories, \u003ci\u003eTurbulence\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in December 2018. In October 2019, David was awarded both the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize and the Reader's Choice Award. 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