Flesh

Flesh

Flesh

By David Szalay

Read on: 29 Mar 2026

ISBN: 0224099787

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I’m conflicted about what my thoughts are on this book.

Picked it up because I saw it won a bunch of prizes. The opening chapters made me feel a bit uncomfortable. But that’s fine. I think that was intentional.

Everything about this book that I don’t like feels intentional by the Author so I guess this book just isn’t for me. The dialogue is extremely minimal. A lot of the conversations just follows this pattern.

“yeah?” “yeah” “okay” “okay”

I could not really connect with any of the characters. Especially Istvàn.

The story itself is interesting though and it flows pretty well.

I was never bored reading this book. I just don’t think I got much out of it.

Worth a read regardless.

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