Name: Flesh: A Novel (en Inglés)
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Author: David Szalay
ISBN: 9781982122799

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Libro Físico

Autor

David Szalay

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Scribner

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Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781982122799

Flesh: A Novel (en Inglés)

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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 István 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 István 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 István emigrate from Hungary to London, where he moves from job to job before finding steady work as a driver for London's billionaire class. At each juncture, his life is affected by the goodwill or self-interest of strangers. Through it all, István is a calm, detached observer of his own life, and through his eyes we experience a tragic twist on an immigrant "success story," brightened by moments of sensitivity, softness, and Szalay's keen observation. Fast-paced and immersive, Flesh reveals István's life through intimate moments, with lovers, employers, and family members, charted over the course of decades. As the story unfolds, the tension between what is seen and unseen, what can and cannot be said, hurtles forward until finally--with everything at stake--sudden tragedy again throws life as István knows it in jeopardy. Spare and penetrating, 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.

David Szalay

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David Szalay es autor de cinco obras de ficción: Primavera, El inocente, Londres y el sureste, por la que recibió los premios Betty Trask y Geoffrey Faber Memorial; Todo lo que es el hombre, por la que recibió el premio Gordon Burn y el premio Plimpton de ficción, y fue finalista del premio Man Booker; y Turbulencia, ganadora del premio Edge Hill. Nacido en Canadá, se crio en Londres y actualmente reside en Viena. Su obra ha sido traducida a más de veinte idiomas.

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