David Szalay

WINNER FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Chance. Luck. Choice. The addictive, darkly funny novel of one mans rise and fall.'A revelatory novel' Sunday Times'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of OrbitalA propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.Fifteen-year-old Istvan 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 mothers age as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the twenty-first centurys tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of Londons 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.Chosen as a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily MailFlesh is a wonderful novel so brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls, author of One Day'Its been a long time since Ive been swallowed whole by a novel the way I was by this one ... So much searing insight into the way we live now' Observer'Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer' Tessa Hadley

«Szalay despliega aquí su prosa aparentemente sencilla, su habilidad para destilar vidas enteras en viñetas y una curiosidad ilimitada por sus congéneres.» The Observer «Sorprendentemente conmovedor.

A gripping dystopian novel where a young woman must fight to survive in a fractured society.

Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life- professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. But when this offer turns out to be as misleading as Pauls sales patter, his life and that of his family are transformed in ways very much more peculiar than he ever thought possible.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZENine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.

Neuf hommes, âgés de 17 à 73 ans, tous à une étape différente de leur vie et dispersés aux quatre coins de l’Europe, essayent de comprendre ce que signifie être vivant. Tels sont les personnages mis

It is 1948 and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB (the forerunner of the KGB) is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there. The patient is a man long presumed dead - a now severely incapacitated veteran of the Second World War, who seems unable to remember any of his past.

James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script...

The brilliant new short story sequence from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man Is.Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next.In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalays diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane journeys, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers and parents, children and siblings, or nobody at all.Along the way, Szalay deftly depicts the ripple effect that, knowingly or otherwise, a persons actions have on those around them, and invites us to consider our own place in the vast and delicately balanced network of human relationships that is the world we live in today.

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESHIt is 1948 in Russia and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB (the forerunner of the KGB) is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there. The patient is a man long presumed dead - a now severely incapacitated veteran of the Second World War, who seems unable to remember any of his past.Twenty-four years later, Aleksandr is haunted by the case. With his Stalinist faith under threat as the Cold War recedes, he interrogates his memories and the effect the case had on himself and on those he loved most.Psychologically intricate, flawlessly researchedThe TimesImpressiveThe Sunday TimesDavid Szalay... has created an extraordinary character, a KGB man you can imagine knowing or even beingObserver

« Un livre magistral, d’une intensité saisissante. »The Washington PostDouze vols, douze voyageurs en transit à travers la planète, douze destins individuels liés les uns aux autres. Après Ce qu’est

Lauréat du Booker Prize 2025On sent en refermant ce roman grandiose que quelque chose d’important est arrivé à la littérature. ElleImpressionnant.Le FigaroGrandiose. Lévènement de cet hiver. ElleDès

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESHA brilliant novel about money and love and betting everything on a single throwJames and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in a luxury hotel.They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script...A writer with the whole range of talentsSunday TimesDevastatingly powerful... extremely funny, in that understated, unexpected wayIndependent on SundayA sharp, truthful, funny portrait of contemporary manners that is also unexpectedly movingThe Times

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THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESHIncreasingly looking like the masterpiece of British fiction from the past few yearsEvening StandardNine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL READERS CHOICE AWARDSome of the best prose to be found in English this yearGuardianExact and true and always subtly intelligent Tessa HadleyIts a rare and wonderous event when a novel changes the way you look at the world around you William Boyd

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESHOne of the great English novels of recent years Rachel CuskA discontented ad salesman finds his life changed, in the wryly funny and addictive first novel from the 2025 Booker-Prize winning author of FLESHPaul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life - professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. He only wishes there was something he could do about it.And something seems to fall into his lap when a meeting with an old friend and fellow salesman, Eddy Jaw, leads to the offer of a new job. But when this offer turns out to be as misleading as Pauls sales patter, his life and that of his family are transformed in ways very much more peculiar than he ever thought possible.Startlingly good The IndependentWonderfully dark The Times

**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**Brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money David NichollsI was tearing through [Flesh], I never once slowed down Jennette McCurdyBrilliance on every page Samantha HarveySo much searing insight into the way we live nowObserverThrough chance, luck and choice, one mans life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our livesFifteen-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 Londons elite. His competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth win him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.An astonishingly moving portrait of a mans life Booker Prize Judges, 2025A revelatory novel Sunday TimesPure brilliance from the first to the (devastating) last sentence India KnightRefreshing, illuminating and true Financial TimesOne of the most astonishing books Ive ever read Dua LipaHugely entertaining, gripping like a thriller The TimesVisceral and compelling Gary StevensonExciting, propulsive, emotional Sarah Jessica Parker*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Independent, GQ and Daily Telegraph*

La Scuola Estiva festeggia i dieci anni di vita. Come si suol dire, sembra ieri... Invece in questi dieci anni il progetto e fiorito e cresciuto, grazie a tante ragazze e ragazzi che ogni estate hanno costruito e aggiunto il loro prezioso tratto di strada al percorso comune. E ancora e sempre, arrivare alla Scuola e lavorare gomito a gomito tra sconosciuti, rinnovando la serieta e la leggerezza del fare insieme, regala stupore e sorprese. I racconti un po da ridere e un po da piangere del 2022, tradotti dallo spagnolo, dallinglese e dal tedesco, sono stati generosamente donati da Jorge Fernandez Era, David Szalay e Jens Nielsen. Buona lettura!Un ebook dei Dragomanni (www.idragomanni.it).

En doce vuelos alrededor del mundo, varios personajes interactúan de un modo fugaz pero electrizante.«Szalay despliega aquí su prosa aparentemente sencilla, su habilidad para destilar vidas enteras e

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESHTwelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next.In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalays diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane journeys, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers and parents, children and siblings, or nobody at all.Along the way, Szalay deftly depicts the ripple effect that, knowingly or otherwise, a persons actions have on those around them, and invites us to consider our own place in the vast and delicately balanced network of human relationships that is the world we live in today.