David Szalay

WINNER FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Chance. Luck. Choice. The addictive, darkly funny novel of one mans rise and fall.'A revelatory novel' Sunday Times'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of OrbitalA propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.Fifteen-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 mothers 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.As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the twenty-first centurys tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of Londons super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.Spare 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.Chosen as a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily MailFlesh is a wonderful novel so brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls, author of One Day'Its been a long time since Ive been swallowed whole by a novel the way I was by this one ... So much searing insight into the way we live now' Observer'Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer' Tessa Hadley

WINNER FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Chance. Luck. Choice. The addictive, darkly funny novel of one mans rise and fall.'A revelatory novel' Sunday Times'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of OrbitalA propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.Fifteen-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 mothers 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.As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the twenty-first centurys tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of Londons super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.Spare 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.Chosen as a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily MailFlesh is a wonderful novel so brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls, author of One Day'Its been a long time since Ive been swallowed whole by a novel the way I was by this one ... So much searing insight into the way we live now' Observer'Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer' Tessa Hadley

Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life- professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. But when this offer turns out to be as misleading as Pauls sales patter, his life and that of his family are transformed in ways very much more peculiar than he ever thought possible.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZENine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.

It is 1948 and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB (the forerunner of the KGB) is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there. The patient is a man long presumed dead - a now severely incapacitated veteran of the Second World War, who seems unable to remember any of his past.

James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script...

The brilliant new short story sequence from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man Is.Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next.In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalays diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane journeys, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers and parents, children and siblings, or nobody at all.Along the way, Szalay deftly depicts the ripple effect that, knowingly or otherwise, a persons actions have on those around them, and invites us to consider our own place in the vast and delicately balanced network of human relationships that is the world we live in today.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are - ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.

WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2019**Discover the brilliant new short story collection from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man IsTwelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next. In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalay's diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane journeys, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers and parents, children and siblings, or nobody at all. Along the way, Szalay deftly depicts the ripple effect that, knowingly or otherwise, a person's actions have on those around them, and invites us to consider our own place in the vast and delicately balanced network of human relationships that is the world we live in today.

«Szalay despliega aquí su prosa aparentemente sencilla, su habilidad para destilar vidas enteras en viñetas y una curiosidad ilimitada por sus congéneres.» The Observer «Sorprendentemente conmovedor.

A gripping dystopian novel where a young woman must fight to survive in a fractured society.

Lauréat du Booker Prize 2025 István, quinze ans, vient d'emménager avec sa mère dans un quartier modeste d'une petite ville de Hongrie. Isolé, désoeuvré, c'est par hasard qu'il se lie avec sa voisine

En doce vuelos alrededor del mundo, varios personajes interactúan de un modo fugaz pero electrizante.«Szalay despliega aquí su prosa aparentemente sencilla, su habilidad para destilar vidas enteras e

La Scuola Estiva festeggia i dieci anni di vita. Come si suol dire, sembra ieri... Invece in questi dieci anni il progetto e fiorito e cresciuto, grazie a tante ragazze e ragazzi che ogni estate hanno costruito e aggiunto il loro prezioso tratto di strada al percorso comune. E ancora e sempre, arrivare alla Scuola e lavorare gomito a gomito tra sconosciuti, rinnovando la serieta e la leggerezza del fare insieme, regala stupore e sorprese. I racconti un po da ridere e un po da piangere del 2022, tradotti dallo spagnolo, dallinglese e dal tedesco, sono stati generosamente donati da Jorge Fernandez Era, David Szalay e Jens Nielsen. Buona lettura!Un ebook dei Dragomanni (www.idragomanni.it).