Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2016 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Nine stories follow nine European men at different stages of life—from a seventeen-year-old backpacker to an elderly billionaire—across the continent's cities, hotels, and landscapes. Each is caught at a moment of stasis or drift, reckoning with love, money, failure, and mortality. A profound meditation on modern European masculinity.
About the Author
David SzalayBritish
David Szalay was born in Montreal in January 1974 to a Jewish family with a Canadian mother and Hungarian father. His family moved from Beirut, before the Lebanese Civil War, to London, where he grew up. He attended Sussex House School and studied English at Brasenose College, Oxford. Read more →
