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From 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 Istvan 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 neighbor–a married woman close to his mother’s age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errands–as his only companion.
But as these periodical encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, his life soon spirals out of control, ending in a violent accident that leaves a man dead. What follows is a rocky trajectory that sees Istvan emigrate from Hungary to London, where he moves from job to job before finding steady work as a driver for London’s billionaire class.
Flesh traces the imperceptible but indelible contours of unresolved trauma and its aftermath amid the precarity and violence of an ever-globalizing Europe with incisive insight, unyielding pathos, and startling humanity.
