{"product_id":"flesh","title":"Flesh - Booker Prize 2025 Winner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Brilliance on every page'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSamantha Harvey, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrbital\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A superb novel ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emordant, knowing and disturbingly wise'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDavid Nicholls, author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOne Day\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century’s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpare and penetrating, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFlesh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eChosen as a ‘Best Book of 2025’ by the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'It’s been a long time since I’ve been swallowed whole by a novel the way I was by this one ... So much searing insight into the way we live now'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlex Preston, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTessa Hadley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54923142463861,"sku":"9780224099783","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/a95ce9ef-34a7-4150-af02-34d88eec1cb6.jpg?v=1736854345","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/flesh","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}