Flesh : a novel / David Szalay.
From Booker Prize-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old Istvan 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 Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As 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. Spare and penetrating, Flesh 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982122799
- ISBN: 198212279X
- Physical Description: 353 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2025.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2025 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House UK."--Title page verso.
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Available copies
- 33 of 54 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
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- 7 current holds with 54 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC SZALAY (Text) | 36015000772570 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 08/18/2026 |
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