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Flesh

Von: David Szalay
Gesprochen von: Daniel Weyman
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**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**

Through chance, luck and choice, one man’s 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 lives

Fifteen-year-old István 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, István 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.

‘Brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money’ David Nicholls

‘One of the most astonishing books I’ve ever read’ Dua Lipa

’So much searing insight into the way we live now’ Observer

‘I was tearing through Flesh, I never once slowed down’ Jennette McCurdy

‘Brilliance on every page’ Samantha Harvey

‘Hugely entertaining, gripping like a thriller’ The Times

© David Szalay 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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Flesh is at once intricate and spacious, it flows both fast and deep. There's brilliance on every page. Szalay is an ingenious conductor of time, and of the fates and forces that give shape to a life (Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital)
Flesh is a wonderful novel – so brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money (David Nicholls)
A superb novel, written with great terse authority and allure: mordant, knowing and disturbingly wise (William Boyd)
This is a marvellous novel. Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer (Tessa Hadley)
I hope David Szalay wins the Booker this year... Flesh is a masterpiece, told with virtuosic economy... Pure brilliance from the first to the (devastating) last sentence (India Knight)
Refreshing, illuminating and true… a moving work of art with a plot that compels and surprises and devastates (Financial Times)
[A] compulsive look at wealth and power, love and sex… Szalay has that rare ability to convey entire galaxies in the sparest writing
Flesh…has ensnared me… It’s rare to find prose this spare that doesn’t feel affect, but Szalay handles surface and depth with skill, as only great novelists can. Flesh is a revelatory novel
Hypnotically tense and compelling… An astonishingly moving portrait of a man’s life (Booker Judges, 2025)
In István David Szalay has created a modern existential antihero in the grand tradition of Camus and Dostoevsky. 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. Taut, spare and perfectly structured, Flesh reads like a gripping thriller which slowly gathers to itself the emotional power of classical tragedy (Carys Davies, author of Clear)
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I loved how the book was narrated and I also liked the book itself- it’s an interesting portrayal of masculinity and male alienation.

Great performance

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Amazing to say so much so with few words. Thank you for this exquisit experience!

Perfect sentences

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I just finished listening to he audiobook and I am still quite impressed by the emotionally raw ending - at least that is how I experienced it. The book itself is a straightforward life story of a relatively simple guy who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances somewhere in his life. The life story is very human, albeit sad and in the end also a picture of human vindictiveness. I liked this book very much. As for the narrator, he did a great job too. The book is written in a very straightforward manner which at times is almost annoying with its bareness, but then also sucks one in into what is happening. Booker prize was very well deserved for this.

Great story, great storytelling, emotionally raw

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Really liked the way this is written. Non fussed I would say. Reminded me of my own upbringing . A very welcome novel dealing the story of a down to earth human being dealing with life in an unpretentious way. Thank you.

The writing style

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Just as the protagonist, this book is so much more sensitive and deep than at a first glance. A harsh reflection about masculinity, a life well lived, what it means to be a man.
All I can say that the book is much better than the protagonist would say: "ok"

A book of few words and deep currents

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