Flesh is the winner of the Booker Prize 2025. A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp
All That Man Is
Written by David Szalay
- Shortlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2016
- Published by Jonathan Cape
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David Szalay discerns a shared longing in the hearts of nine ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable, vital, pitiable, hilarious men
Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. As the weather gets colder, and the men get older, the stakes become bewilderingly high.
David Szalay
Winner of the Booker Prize 2025 for Flesh. David Szalay was born in Canada, grew up in London and now lives in Vienna
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