{"product_id":"flesh","title":"Flesh. David Szalay. 2025.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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. Their encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István barely understands, and his life soon spirals out of control.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpare and penetrating, Flesh 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Large paperback \/ 9780224099790","offer_id":42637564084306,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/ED30466E-6E84-4CD5-A945-F7AA0E186C20.jpg?v=1787369154","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/flesh","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}