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WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence
From “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.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Flesh as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Despite surface readings that claim it is about masculinity, it's really a portrait of a man trapped in everydayness. István's simple, straightforward path veers upward toward success and then toward quiet tragedy.
Everyone else in the novel, and I mean everybody, writes his story. Without these outside narrators telling him what to do, István could barely be classified as human. He is so caught up in the everydayness of being, he trods along in a clipped, nonjudgmental prose that mirrors his emotional flatness. As a result, its impossible to like him, given that he gives readers nothing to hope for…
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