It is his sixth novel It was published in 2025 by jonathan cape in the uk and by scribner in the us The novel won the 2025 booker prize. ‘flesh’ by david szalay wins this year’s booker prize the novel follows the unlikely path of a hungarian man from a housing project to the british upper class. David szalay became the first hungarian british writer to receive the prestigious booker prize with 'flesh,' his sixth novel. David szalay’s flesh, a novel that explores contemporary masculinity through the eventful life of a hungarian man across the decades, was the “unanimous” choice as winner of this year’s.
It follows the eventful life of one hungarian, istván, from his teen years to middle age. A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, flesh chronicles a man at odds with himself—estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play.
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