Durante un vuelo con turbulencias, una mujer conversa con el hombre que va sentado a su lado en el avión; ese hombre regresa a casa con noticias trágicas que también han impactado en otro extraño. Un piloto conoce una noche...
István lebt mit seiner Mutter in einem Plattenbauviertel am Rande einer ungarischen Stadt. Er ist neu dort, schüchtern und schnell isoliert. Einzig zu seiner Nachbarin - einer verheirateten, deutlich älteren Frau - hat er regelmä&szl...
From âthe shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we haveâ ( Esquire ), a âcaptivating..hypnotic..virtuosicâ ( The Baffler ) novel about a man whose life veers off course due...
Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour - a married woman close to his...
In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalay's diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane journeys, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers and parents, children...
David Szalay is the author of four previous works of fiction: Spring , The Innocent , London and the South-East , for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, and All That Man Is , for wh