Flesh

byDavid Szalay, Daniel Weyman (Read by)

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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

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

About David Szalay

David Szalay is the author of six works of fiction, including London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529955026
  • Length: 565 minutes
  • Price: £14.00
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