{"product_id":"flesh-9781529932423","title":"Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025, 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.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781529932423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 24 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Vintage Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.7(H)x12.9(L)x2.5(W)252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 252\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eDavid 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.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e is at once intricate and spacious, it flows both fast and deep. There's \u003cb\u003ebrilliance on every page\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eSzalay 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 Orbital\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003cb\u003e a wonderful novel – so brilliant and wise\u003c\/b\u003e on chance, love, sex, money -- David Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA superb novel\u003c\/b\u003e, written with great terse authority and allure: \u003cb\u003emordant, knowing and disturbingly wise\u003c\/b\u003e -- William Boyd\u003cbr\u003eThis is \u003cb\u003ea marvellous novel\u003c\/b\u003e. Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant.\u003cb\u003e David Szalay is an extraordinary writer\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tessa Hadley\u003cbr\u003eI hope David Szalay wins the Booker this year...\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlesh \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterpiece, told with virtuosic economy\u003c\/b\u003e...\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ePure brilliance from the first to the (devastating) last sentence -- India Knight\u003cbr\u003eRefreshing, illuminating and true… a moving work of art with a plot that compels and surprises and devastates -- Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e[A] \u003cb\u003ecompulsive \u003c\/b\u003elook at wealth and power, love and sex… \u003cb\u003eSzalay has that rare ability to convey entire galaxies in the sparest writing\u003c\/b\u003e * i *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e…has ensnared me… It’s rare to find prose this spare that doesn’t feel affect, but \u003cb\u003eSzalay handles surface and depth with skill, as only great novelists can.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea revelatory novel\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHypnotically tense and compelling\u003c\/b\u003e… An \u003cb\u003eastonishingly moving\u003c\/b\u003e portrait of a man’s life -- Booker Judges, 2025\u003cbr\u003eIn István David Szalay has created \u003cb\u003ea modern existential antihero in the grand tradition of Camus and Dostoevsky\u003c\/b\u003e. Amid the random accidents and desultory decisions that shape his life, and come to feel like fate, he is at once a cool observer and a towering presence. \u003cb\u003eTaut, spare and perfectly structured, \u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a gripping thriller which slowly gathers to itself the emotional power of classical tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e -- Carys Davies, author of Clear","brand":"David Szalay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48506083246297,"sku":"9781529932423","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781529932423.jpg?v=1775742447","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/flesh-9781529932423","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}