David Szalay: Flesh

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There are fictional characters who take their lives firmly into their own hands. István is not one of them. The protagonist in David Szalay's Booker Prize-winning novel drifts through life without clear goals, adapting to new circumstances while remaining remarkably speechless. It is precisely in this narrative distance that the power of Flesh, both fascinating and unsettling, lies. Szalay writes of social rise and fall, loneliness and the coincidences that shape a life.

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