"A meditation on class, power, intimacy, migration and masculinity, Flesh is a compelling portrait of one man, and the formative experiences that can reverberate across a lifetime, organisers of the award ceremony in London said in a statement."
"We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read, said Doyle in a statement. I don't think I've read a novel that uses the white space on the page so well. It's as if the author is inviting t"
"You have your answer, he said."
David Szalay won the Booker Prize for Flesh, a novel about a tortured Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. The narrative follows taciturn Istvan from a teenage relationship with an older woman, through struggles as an immigrant in the UK, to life in London high society. The book uses spare prose and notable white space to render a meditation on class, power, intimacy, migration and masculinity. The prize awarded 50,000 pounds to the winner and 2,500 pounds to each shortlisted author and translator, and was chosen from 153 submitted novels by a panel including Roddy Doyle and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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