{"product_id":"flesh-by-david-szalay-signed-paperback","title":"Flesh by David Szalay - Signed Paperback with bookmark","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"scope_book_description\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. This signed paperback edition comes with a complimentary bookmark, making it an ideal gift for David Szalay fans or a special keepsake for your own collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpare and penetrating,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlesh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pdp-spec\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eISBN:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"isbn\"\u003e9781529932423\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDimensions: 128 x 197 x 23 mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"David Szalay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48652035850469,"sku":"9781529932423","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1721\/0879\/files\/Szalay-Flesh-2.jpg?v=1775054284","url":"https:\/\/saltsmillshop.co.uk\/products\/flesh-by-david-szalay-signed-paperback","provider":"Salts Mill Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}