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Flesh

Yazan: David Szalay
Seslendiren: 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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One is conditioned to expect there to be something admirable or at least redeeming about the “hero” of a novel. With this one there isn’t a thing even vaguely interesting about him. He simply follows the path of least resistance. He often acts without any scruples and is mostly lacking intelligence and motivation. The dialogue is painfully lackluster. The love and loss of his son is sad, but is countered by the indifference towards his young stepson and the shameful squandering of the boy’s inheritance. The ending was as could be expected.

Dreary and depressing

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Particularly good narration and character voices. No idea where the story was going. Minimalist thriller

Muted minimalist zen storytelling

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The tone and pace is very evocative, narration is excellent. So different, no real plot just life unfolding.

Brilliant

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We don’t learn so much about the inner workings of the characters thoughts, however so much is conveyed.
There is an hyper-real quality to every scene… brutally authentic.
Perceptive.
Thomas’s ultimate actions are disappointing.
Istvan is ultimately a kind of antihero… compelling listening.
The narration is fantastic, with completely believable character voices.

Sparce but also so revealing

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If this book had a different narrator I'm not sure I would have listened to all of it. It's a basic story of someones life from start to almost finished and I didn't really get the point of it. Plus I'm not sure how the main character made so much money and had woman throwing themselves at him. His entire vocabulary consisted of; Yeah. No. OK, and "What do you mean by..." Followed by him repeating the last thing that was said to him. I sort of still enjoyed the book. I'm just not sure why!

Narration made it better.

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