03873cam a2200721 4500 2470276570 TxAuBib 20250806120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982122812 1982122811 B0CW1GSGLP Amazon 0f36090d-95f3-4431-89a5-07b6313c50e0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10824173 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Szalay, David. Flesh [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Scribner, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. eastern european fiction. literary novel, literary. contemporary fiction. immigrant experience. European literature. psychological drama. best short fiction. cultural isolation. class and ambition. books about class. existential novel. literary fiction. Man Booker Prize. books about love. fate and destiny. immigrant novels. literary awards. all that man is. Eastern Europe. travel fiction. award-winning. International. best fiction. david sallay. masculinity. Best books. airplanes. Budapest. prestige. Hungary. Fiction. global . Flight. Abroad. Travel. globe. HTML:<b>Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize</b><br /> <br /> <b>From Booker Prize finalist and "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (<i>Esquire</i>), a "captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic" (<i>The Baffler</i>) novel about a man whose life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances.</b><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, <i>Flesh</i> chronicles a man at odds with himself—estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Shadowed by the specter of past tragedy and the apathy of modernity, the tension between István and all that alienates him hurtles forward until sudden tragedy again throws life as he knows it in jeopardy. "Spare and detached on the page, lush in resonance beyond it" (NPR), <i>Flesh</i> 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. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-08-06 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0f36090d-95f3-4431-89a5-07b6313c50e0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0f36090d-95f3-4431-89a5-07b6313c50e0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)