THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH
A brilliant novel about money and love and betting everything on a single throw
James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in a luxury hotel.
They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script...
'A writer with the whole range of talents' Sunday Times
'Devastatingly powerful... extremely funny, in that understated, unexpected way' Independent on Sunday
'A sharp, truthful, funny portrait of contemporary manners that is also unexpectedly moving' The Times
Vorwort
A brilliant novel about money and love, on betting everything on a single throw, by an award-winning young writers, chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.
Autorentext
David Szalay is the author of six works of fiction, including London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.