Flesh

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize From Booker Prize finalist and “the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have” ( Esquire ), a “captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic” ( The Baffler ) novel about a man whose life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances. Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon iso