{"product_id":"9780224099783","title":"Flesh","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Szalay, David \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 March 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e164 x 244 x 35 | 576g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital‘Flesh is a wonderful novel – so brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls, author of One DayA propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpare 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChosen as a ‘Best Book of 2025’ by the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail'It’s been a long time since I’ve 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55522692399485,"sku":"9780224099783","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9780224099783_997a9aa3-f409-46e3-b274-1a07bdfd36c4.jpg?v=1742061508","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.pro\/products\/9780224099783","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}