
British-Hungarian author David Szalay joins Eve Jackson on arts24 to discuss his controversial Booker Prize-winning novel “Flesh”, which follows István – a silent, violent and unsettling protagonist – from a bleak Hungarian housing estate to London’s super-rich elite. Szalay reveals why he called his book “risky,” how he made readers care about someone who says “OK” 400 times and what happens when Stormzy and Dua Lipa champion your work.
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