Flesh van David Szalay is bekroond met de Booker Prize 2025. Hij verdient 50.000 Britse ponden. In Nederland is het boek uitgekomen onder de titel Het vlees; de vertaling van de hand van Auke Leistra kwam uit bij Nijgh & Van Ditmar. Je vindt hier de recensie op Tzum.

De jury:

David Szalay’s fifth novel follows István from his teenage years on a Hungarian housing estate to borstal, and from soldiering in Iraq to his career as personal security for London’s super-rich. In many ways István is stereotypically masculine – physical, impulsive, barely on speaking terms with his own feelings (and for much of the novel barely speaking: he must rank among the more reticent characters in literature). But somehow, using only the sparest of prose, this hypnotically tense and compelling book becomes an astonishingly moving portrait of a man’s life.

In de jury zitten: Roddy Doyle (voorzitter en oud-winnaar), Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power en Kiley Reid.