Everything you need to understand or teach Flesh by David Szalay.
In Flesh, David Szalay traces the life of István, a Hungarian boy whose impulsive choices and early sexual trauma carry him from a housing estate in Hungary to the rarefied world of London’s super rich. This literary novel, written in a close third-person present tense, presents ten episodes from István’s adolescence through middle age and foregrounds his physical experiences in youth detention, military service, private security work, and marriage into a billionaire family. As István’s fortunes rise and fall, Szalay examines how class structures, gender expectations, and migration shape his attempts to find connection and a stable sense of self. Major themes include masculinity, trauma, class and social mobility, alienation, power, the body, and the tension between fate and choice.
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