Flesh

Resumen del libro

From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour a married woman close to his mother's age as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century's tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London's super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.

Biografía del autor

David Szalay (Montreal, 1974) es un autor inglés de origen húngaro. The Telegraph lo incluyó en 2016 en la lista de los 20 mejores escritores británicos menores de 40 años, y Granta lo situó en 2013 entre los mejores novelistas jóvenes británicos. Turbulencias, su obra más reciente, ha sido adaptada a la radio por la BBC y ha merecido el Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2019.