Flesh
Szalay, David2026
Book
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 mother's 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 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.
Main title:
Flesh / David Szalay.
Author:
Szalay, David, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2026.©2025
Collation:
349 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
First published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in 2025.
ISBN:
9781529932423 (paperback)9781529932423 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
485466