"I wanted to write a book with a Hungarian end and an English end, since I was living very much between the two countries at the time,"
"Writing about a Hungarian immigrant at the time when Hungary joined the EU seemed like an obvious way to go. So it would be, to some extent, a novel about contemporary Europe, and about the cultural and economic divides that characterise it,"
"A meditation on class, power, intimacy, migration and masculinity, Flesh is a compelling portrait of one man, and the formative experiences that can reverberate across a lifetime,"
David Szalay, a 51-year-old British-Hungarian writer, won the Booker Prize for fiction for his novel Flesh, which follows a taciturn working-class Hungarian across decades as he makes and loses a fortune. The novel uses sparse prose to trace a teenage relationship with an older woman, immigration to Britain, and work among London's ultra-wealthy. The book engages themes of class, power, intimacy, migration, masculinity, and the cultural and economic divides of contemporary Europe around Hungary's EU accession. The prize carries £50,000 and typically boosts sales and the winner's profile. The judging panel praised the novel's uniqueness and use of white space.
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