'Flesh' wins 2025 Booker Prize: 'We had never read anything quite like it'

✍️ Andrew Limbong 📅 November 10, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: November 10, 2025

Summary: David Szalay uses spare and sparse language to follow one Hungarian-British man from his teen years through middle age. The prestigious prize honors the best English-language novels published in the U.K.

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István isn't one of the most talkative characters in literary fiction. He says "yeah" and "okay" a lot, and is mostly reactive to the world around him.

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