Flesh (David Szalay)
Booker Prize winner, and a fascinating, propulsive read. What makes it so remarkable is the way it tells the story through the eyes of a profoundly emotionally stunted man who has almost no insight into himself. He simply doesn’t have the emotional vocabulary to understand his own inner life. The result is an unusually restrained but deeply affecting novel that invites the reader to perceive the vast emotional landscape that lies beyond what the narrator himself can see or say.
2 months ago
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Flesh
Sandy Caribou
“I’m deep into my library book addiction and “Flesh” by David Szalay blew my mind. Each chapter could be a stand-alone short story, which makes reading this book have a certain self-contained gorgeous pace and feel. Elements of it reminded me of Sally Rooney, with a little bit of the deep sadness of “A Little Life” sprinkled in. I went in knowing nothing about this book, and read it in 72 hours. If”
Zach Cohen
“I struggle to finish books usually, but this flew by.”
James Kylstra
“I spoke too soon when I said that Endling was the best book I read this year. This is an astonishingly good book, though dark. An engrossing portrait of a person with the kind of internal life that we don’t often see portrayed in fiction. So glad I read it; I’ll be thinking about it for a while.”
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