David Szalay’s Booker Prize win and the role of literary awards in building bridges
Hungarian-British writer David Szalay’s Flesh, this year’s Booker Prize-winning novel, is a narrative of displacement, masculinity, and the weight of moral choices. A Hungarian teenager, Istvan, drifts through life — a physical relationship, an older woman, juvenile detention, the Iraq war, and finally a job as a driver for the extremely wealthy in London. Globalisation is…
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