01578nam a22002297a 4500 20251114115835.0 251114b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780224099790 Purchased Mathrubhumi Books, Kaloor English F SZA/FL David Szalay FLESH 1 London Jonathan Cape 2025 349 From Booker shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp Fifteen-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 mothers 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. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first centurys tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of Londons super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. Spare 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. Fiction Novel LEN ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MAIN MAIN FIC 2025-11-13 Purchased 899.00 2307,2025/11/19 8 4 F SZA/FL E1102156 2026-08-22 17:52:20 2026-07-12 2025-11-13 LEN 196897 196897