David Szalay: Flesh

Flesh tells the story of one man’s life, from his isolated adolescence in Hungary and a formative clandestine affair with an older woman; to his adulthood in London, where competing impulses for love, intimacy, wealth and meaning threaten to undo him completely.

This masterful work asks profound questions about what drives a life, what makes it worth living and what breaks it. Szalay sits down to discuss the book that everyone’s talking about with the ever-erudite Michael Williams.