{"product_id":"flesh-a-novel-booker-prize-winner-2805","title":"Flesh: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE AND A NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFlesh \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --Samantha Harvey, author of Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOrbital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTeenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the years that follow, István is born along by the goodwill, or self-interest, of strangers, charting a rocky yet upward trajectory that lands him further from his childhood, and the defining events that abruptly ended it, than he could possibly have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, \u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a man at odds with himself--estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Shadowed by the specter of past tragedy and the apathy of modernity, the tension between István and all that alienates him hurtles forward until sudden tragedy again throws life as he knows it in jeopardy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Spare and detached on the page, lush in resonance beyond it\" (NPR), \u003ci\u003eFlesh \u003c\/i\u003etraces the imperceptible but indelible contours of unresolved trauma and its aftermath amid the precarity and violence of an ever-globalizing Europe with incisive insight, unyielding pathos, and startling humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e David Szalay\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTurbulence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e London and the South-East\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAll That Man Is\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels have won and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and he has been awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review \u003c\/i\u003ePlimpton Prize for Fiction. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Szalay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52756634992925,"sku":"9781982122805","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781982122805.jpg?v=1786568508","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/flesh-a-novel-booker-prize-winner-2805","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}