2025 Booker Prize winner Canadian-Hungarian author David Szalay's acclaimed novel Flesh tells István's rags-to-riches story from teenager to old man.
Arguably a commentary on masculinity, Flesh asks profound questions about what drives a life, what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.
Szalay has twice been nominated for the Booker. Not winning in 2016 made him all the hungrier. He's appearing at the Auckland Writer's Festival in May.
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