David Szalay

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• Flesh

  Written in English

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  Booker 2025 · ★ Winner

  Flesh

  Flesh

  David Szalay · 51 when first published

  Novel · 368 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Fifteen-year-old István, newly arrived in a Hungarian town and friendless at school, is drawn into a secret affair with the married woman next door, nearly his mother's age, and his life starts to run away from him.

• All That Man Is

  Written in English

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  Booker 2016 · Shortlist

  All That Man Is

  All That Man Is

  David Szalay · 42 when first published

  Novel

  AIAI-generated summary:Nine men at different stages of life, from two English teenagers on a trip to an ageing diplomat, are each away from home somewhere in Europe, trying to work out what it means to be alive.