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David Szalay’s Flesh wins the Booker prize – a deeply affecting novel about masculinity

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par Tory Young, Associate Professor in Department of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University

Canadian-born, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won the Booker prize for his novel, Flesh. It follows the eventful life of one Hungarian, István, from his teen years to middle age.

The novel begins when István, aged 15, and his mother move to a new town – “it’s not an easy age to do that”. Although he struggles to make friends, he hangs out with “another solitary individual” who asks him if he’s “ever done it”. This new friend…

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