Flesh: A Novel, by David Szalay. 2025 Hardcover. VG/VG Hardcover and Dust Jacket with clear plastic DJ cover. Limited library circulation. Library rubber stamp marking on top edge. Sticker on front and rear endpapers.
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 isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the years that follow, István is born along by the goodwill, or self-interest, of strangers, charting a rocky yet upward trajectory that lands him further from his childhood, and the defining events that abruptly ended it, than he could possibly have imagined.
About the Seller: The Friends of the Shorewood Public Library is a non-profit membership organization which supports the mission of the suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin library. Member volunteers raise funds from book sales and other efforts to help the library purchase resources and sponsor special events for the community. eBay sales are among these fundraising activities. This volume was part of the library’s special purchase of popular best sellers – in circulation for a limited period of time.