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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025, David Szalay’s captivating and astonishingly moving novel about the forces that make and break our lives**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**‘Brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money’David Nicholls‘I was tearing through [Flesh], I never once slowed down’Jennette McCurdy‘Brilliance on every page’Samantha Harvey‘So much searing insight into the way we live now’ObserverThrough 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 livesFifteen-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,

★榮獲 2025年 Booker Prize。★2025年 Kirkus Prize 決選名單。David Szalay 的寫作風格簡潔、辛辣，透過主角的眼睛，以冷靜、疏離的視角觀察自己的生活，揭示了看似無形卻不可磨滅的創傷及其後果。本書主角是來自匈牙利的年輕人 István，故事始於他青少年時期與母親住在一個安靜的公寓大樓，他生性害羞，在學校被孤立，唯一的陪伴是一位鄰居－與他母親年齡相仿的已婚婦女。這段不尋常的關係演變成一場秘密戀情，最終導致一場暴力事故，他的人生也因此失控...故事隨著 István 的人生軌跡展開，他從匈牙利移民到倫敦，從事過各種工作，最終成為富豪的司機。在人生的每個轉折點，他的命運都受到陌生人的善意或自私所影響。這本書透過數十年來他與情人、雇主和家人的親密時刻，描繪了一個在自我認同中掙扎的男人。這是一個關於移民「成功故事」的悲劇性轉折，探討了未解的創傷、男子氣概、階級、權力，以及在一個日益全球化的歐洲社會中的不穩定與暴力。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 c

From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**'A masterpiece, told with virtuosic economy… Pure brilliance from the first to the (devastating) last sentence’ India Knight'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey'Spare, visceral, urgent, compelling. This book doesn't f**k around' Gary Stevenson‘So brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David NichollsThrough 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 livesFifteen-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. As these encount

The U.S. debut of leading U.K. author David Szalay, named one of The Daily Telegraph’s twenty best British novelists under fortyJames is a man with a checkered past—sporadic entrepreneur, one-time fil

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceFrom Booker Prize finalist and “the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have” (Esquire), a “captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic” (The Baffler) novel about a man whose life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances.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 is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the years that follow, István is born along by the goodwill, or self-interest, of strangers, charting a rocky yet upward trajectory that lands him further from his childhood, and the defining events that abruptly ended it, than he could possibly have imagined.A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, Flesh chronicles a m

A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them strivin

A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them strivin

Never before published in the United States, the debut novel by the wildly talented author of Booker Prize Finalist All That Man Is“That clattering noise you hear is the sound of critics and readers r

★2016 年 Man Booker Prize 決選名單★2016 年 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction 得主David Szalay 以高度寫實卻不動聲色的筆法，描繪當代歐洲男性的精神風景。本書由九個看似獨立的故事構成，主角皆為身處異地的男性，他們在生命的不同階段——從青春到老年——試圖理解「活在此時此地」究竟意味著什麼。場景橫跨布拉格郊區、阿爾卑斯山村、比利時高速公路旁與塞浦路斯的廉價旅館，每一處都映照出流動世界中的孤獨與失衡。隨著篇章推進，主角年齡逐漸增長，氣候轉冷，情緒也愈發收縮。這些故事在細節中彼此呼應，最終拼湊出一幅完整的人生輪廓，既探問現代男性氣概的困境，也揭示全球化歐洲底下的階級差距、慾望與失落。本書風格冷冽而精準，時而陰暗不安，時而帶著近乎殘酷的幽默感，展現作者對心理狀態的深刻洞察。這是一部結構精巧、力量逐步累積的小說，也是一種嶄新的現實主義嘗試。* Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize ** Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction * A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realismNine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel--to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the ostensibly separate narratives of

Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a