Flesh

FleshFrom Booker Prize finalist David Szalay, a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man whose future is derailed by a series of events that he is unable to control. Teenaged Istvn lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbora married woman close to his mothers age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errandsas

she finds herself drawn into Rachel and Cecilia’s orbit

this literary puzzle is considered to be the hardest in the world

Stephen tells his father that decades ago

they build into a larger interrogation of family

This is the kind of book that one might wish to inhabit forever

and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz

On a routine scouting mission

The classic boyhood adventure tale in a beautiful Deluxe Edition illustrated by Lilli Carre

Bruder tells a compelling

is the seminal work of the “new journalism

and Aspen Words Literary Prize • A Best Book of 2024: The New York Times

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