David Szalay - Flesh
Sun, Nov 16 at 7pm
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE
Author of All That Man Is, longlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize, David Szalay discusses Flesh, a propulsive, hypnotic novel by the “uncommonly gifted” writer (The New York Times). Fifteen-year old István lives in a quiet complex in Hungary, but his life begins to spiral out of control as he begins a clandestine relationship with a married woman close to his mother’s age. Szalay traces the history of a perpetual outsider as he navigates a rags to riches journey from boyhood in Hungary to wealth and power in London—asking the questions what makes life worth living, and what breaks it.
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