"All of the books, in six different and very fresh ways, find their stories in the examination of the individual trying to live with to love, to seek attention from, to cope with, to understand, to keep at bay, to tolerate, to escape from other people, said Doyle. In other words, they are all brilliantly written and they are all brilliantly human."
"Hungarian-British writer Szalay, who was previously shortlisted in 2016, made this year's list for Flesh, which follows protagonist Istvan from his teens to midlife, and from Hungary to London. Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive; about what, if anything, it means to amble through time in a machine made of meat, wrote Keiran Goddard in a Guardian review."
The Booker Prize shortlist contains six novels by established writers; no debut novels appear. Shortlisted authors include Kiran Desai, David Szalay, Andrew Miller, Ben Markovits, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura. The list was announced at the Southbank Centre in central London. The judging panel is chaired by Roddy Doyle and includes actor and publisher Sarah Jessica Parker. Desai is shortlisted for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, her first book since winning in 2006; at nearly 700 pages it is the longest entry. Szalay's Flesh follows Istvan from adolescence to midlife across Hungary and London and explores the numbing strangeness of being alive. Miller's The Land in Winter depicts two couples during the 1962-63 Big Freeze. Half the shortlist comprises American authors.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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