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Szalay, D. (2025). Flesh. Jonathan Cape. https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/flesh

Author Webpage: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/david-szalay

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🎙️ Hey there, book lovers! Welcome to "Revise and Resubmit", and this is your Weekend Book Review episode 📚✨

Today, I’ve got something truly extraordinary for you. We’re diving headfirst into "Flesh" by David Szalay, the electrifying novel that just snagged the Booker Prize 2025 🏆. Published by Jonathan Cape on March 6, 2025, this one’s been lighting up the literary scene like wildfire.

Szalay—whose past masterpieces include All That Man Is and Turbulence—has once again proven why his prose feels like silk one moment and sandpaper the next. Born in Canada, raised in London, now living in Vienna, he writes like someone who’s seen every human contradiction up close—and maybe even lived a few of them. 🌍

"Flesh" grips you by the heart, the mind, and maybe the conscience too. It’s hypnotic, propulsive, and painfully human. We follow István, a boy tangled in loneliness and longing, who grows into a man consumed by desire, power, and regret. Each page peels back another layer until you’re not sure whether you’re watching him unravel—or yourself.

So get ready for a story that asks not just what it means to live, but what it costs to feel alive. 💭

Thank you to David Szalay for this hauntingly beautiful work—and a big shout-out to Jonathan Cape for bringing it to us. 🙏

Don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Spotify and YouTube over at Weekend Researcher, and catch us too on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast! 🎧💫

Now the question is… when a man finally gets everything he thought he wanted, what’s left of him that’s still real? 🤔