David Szalay Collection 2 Books Set - All That Man Is & Flesh - Fiction - Mixed Format

Titles in This Set
All That Man Is
Flesh

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Mixed Format (Paperback & Hardback)
Publisher: Vintage, Jonathan Cape

Overview
This two-book David Szalay collection pairs his Booker-shortlisted breakthrough, All That Man Is, with his 2025 Booker Prize-winning novel, Flesh. Together they trace modern manhood from restless youth to uneasy old age, moving between the suburbs of Prague, a Belgian motorway, a Cypriot hotel, a quiet Hungarian apartment, and the gilded rooms of London high society. Szalay's prose is spare, exact, and quietly devastating, exposing longing, ambition, and the costs of desire. This set gathers two defining literary achievements of the last decade.

About the Books
All That Man Is follows nine men at different stages of life, each away from home and each trying, in his own stumbling way, to work out what it means to be alive here and now. Ranging from a teenage backpacker to an aging man confronting his own decline, the novel builds a mosaic portrait of masculinity across a lifetime. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Gordon Burn Prize and the Edge Hill Readers' Choice Award, cementing Szalay's reputation as one of the sharpest chroniclers of contemporary life writing in English today. Flesh, Szalay's most recent novel, won the Booker Prize in 2025. It opens with fifteen-year-old István living quietly with his mother in a Hungarian apartment complex, before a clandestine relationship upends his world and sends him, eventually, into the British army and into the orbit of London's wealthy elite. Told in Szalay's clipped, understated style, Flesh is a story of chance, class, desire, and the strange momentum of a life shaped by forces well beyond its protagonist's own control. Read together, the two novels reveal a novelist fascinated by the quiet violence of ordinary choices, and by how luck, money, and want reshape a man over the course of a lifetime.

Key Benefits

• Includes Flesh, winner of the Booker Prize 2025
• Includes All That Man Is, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Gordon Burn Prize
• Two standout works from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed voices
• Brand new copies, ideal for gifting or building a literary fiction collection
• Perfect for book clubs and fans of character-driven literary fiction
• A strong addition to any adult library of contemporary British fiction

Book-by-Book Guide
All That Man Is — Nine men at different ages and in different countries each confront, in their own way, what it means to be alive.
Flesh — A Hungarian teenager's quiet life spirals into the tense, glittering world of London wealth and status, in the novel that won the 2025 Booker Prize.

About the Author
David Szalay was born in Canada in 1974, grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. He is the author of London and the South-East, winner of the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes; The Innocent; Spring; Turbulence, winner of the Edge Hill Prize; All That Man Is, winner of the Gordon Burn Prize; and Flesh, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and is regarded as among the most incisive contemporary fiction exploring masculinity and desire.

Why You'll Love This Collection
Two prize-winning novels from a writer at the height of his powers, perfect as a thoughtful birthday or holiday gift, a book club pick, a stocking stuffer for the literary reader, or a rewarding addition to your own shelf. Precise, page-turning, and unforgettable.

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