{"product_id":"flesh","title":"Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A superb novel ... mordant, knowing and disturbingly wise' David Nicholls, author of One Day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpare 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It's been a long time since I've been swallowed whole by a novel the way I was by this one ... So much searing insight into the way we live now' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer' Tessa Hadley\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40848716267584,"sku":"9780224099790","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/0876\/8576\/files\/flesh-4971935.jpg?v=1771107252","url":"https:\/\/thepageandprose.co.nz\/products\/flesh","provider":"The Page and Prose Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}