Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2025 | Winner |
About This Book
A middle-aged man undergoes chemotherapy while travelling between Europe and the Middle East, reconnecting with his adult son and reflecting on his failed marriage and wasted life. Spare and intense in its prose, Flesh is a meditation on the male body, aging, love, and the meaning of a life shaped by its disappointments.
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 →
