{"product_id":"flesh-3","title":"Flesh","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Booker Prize-winning author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifteen-year-old István 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 mother's age--as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century's tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London's super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpare and penetrating, \u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"David Szalay","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - Large Print","offer_id":47286977495276,"sku":"9781420534993","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781420534993.jpg?v=1770469857","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/flesh-3","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}