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Flesh

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內容簡介 David Szalay 以第六部小說《Flesh》獲得 2025 年布克獎，成為首位獲獎的匈牙利裔英國作家。 今年的評審團由 1993 年布克得主 Roddy Doyle 主席領軍，從 153 部符合資格的長篇小說中選出《Flesh》為年度最佳英語小說。 《Flesh》以冷峻筆調跨越數十年，從匈牙利的公寓社區寫到倫敦上流社會的豪宅，描繪一名情感抽離的男子在一連串超出掌控的事件中逐步失衡。 故事描寫主角 István 少年時在匈牙利的孤立與創傷，如何在命運與他人意志推動下跌跌撞撞進入成年，但始終與自我及世界格格不入。小說以貼近、克制的敘事呈現未解創傷在全球化背景下的陰影與後果。 Szalay 曾以《All That Man Is》(2016) 入圍布克獎，本作則被形容為「冷靜、俐落、餘韻深長」，也是他迄今最具批判與人性深度的作品。 來自曾入圍布克獎、被《Esquire》譽為「最敏銳描寫當代男性作者之一」的 David Szalay，《Flesh》是一部「引人入勝、催眠般、技藝高超」（《The Baffler》）的小說，講述一名男子因一連串無法預料的事件，而逐漸偏離人生軌道的故事。少年伊什特萬（István）與母親住在匈牙利一座安靜的公寓社區。害羞且剛到新環境的他，無法融入同儕的社交規則，很快被孤立，反而捲入一連串事件，使他從此成為同學、母親，甚至是對自己而言的陌生人。此後的歲月裡，伊什特萬的人生在陌生人的善意（或私心）推動下顛簸前行，軌跡雖不穩定，卻逐步向上，帶他遠離童年以及終結童年的那些決定性時刻，遠到他從未想過。以跨越數十年的親密片段構成，《Flesh》描繪一個與自己不斷拉扯的男人——一個被環境、被角色需求、也被自己排斥的生命。舊日悲劇的陰影與現代社會的冷漠如影隨形，直到某場突如其來的變故再次將他的世界推向危險邊緣。 正如 NPR 所評：「文字冷峻節制，餘韻卻豐富而深沉。」本書以銳利洞察與堅定的人性筆法，描繪未解的創傷如何在暴力與不確定日增的全球化歐洲中，留下難以察覺卻無法抹滅的痕跡。Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize From Booker Prize finalist and "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic" (The Baffler) novel about a man whose life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances. Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the years that follow, István is born along by the goodwill, or self-interest, of strangers, charting a rocky yet upward trajectory that lands him further from his childhood, and the defining events that abruptly ended it, than he could possibly have imagined. A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, Flesh chronicles a man at odds with himself--estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Shadowed by the specter of past tragedy and the apathy of modernity, the tension between István and all that alienates him hurtles forward until sudden tragedy again throws life as he knows it in jeopardy. "Spare and detached on the page, lush in resonance beyond it" (NPR), Flesh traces the imperceptible but indelible contours of unresolved trauma and its aftermath amid the precarity and violence of an ever-globalizing Europe with incisive insight, unyielding pathos, and startling humanity.【迷誠品編輯推薦】標題｜2025紐約時報百大書單公布！10本從歷史、社會到人性的年度好書撰文｜迷誠品內容中心下班後走進書店，手指在書背間來回遊走，最後卻空手離開——不是沒有好書，而是不知道哪一本真正適合此刻的自己。當閱讀選項越來越多，一份經過時間與專業淬鍊的書單，反而成了最難能可貴的指引燈塔。《紐約時報》百大書單是每年由專業書評團隊精心挑選的閱讀指標。從年初開始，他們密集閱讀當年出版的新書，歷經反覆討論與辯證，從數千本新書挑選出最具文學價值與時代意義的作品。2025 年的入選名單橫跨小說與非虛構，從家族記憶、酷兒成長，到科技權力、戰爭與氣候未來，勾勒出我們身處的世界樣貌。此篇從 2025 年的《紐約時報》百大書單中，精選已經有中譯書、話題度高的 10 本巨作，讓讀者在有限時間中，抓住今年最具代表性的書單。☞點此進入迷誠品閱讀文章

作者介紹

作者介紹 David Szalay is the author of Turbulence, London and the South-East, and All That Man Is. He's been awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and The Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London and now lives in Vienna. His most recent novel is Flesh.

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最佳賣點 : David Szalay 以《Flesh》獲得 2025 年布克獎，成為首位獲獎的匈牙利裔英國作家。故事跨越數十年，從匈牙利公寓寫到倫敦豪宅，描繪一名情感抽離的男子在失控事件中逐步失衡。本書以銳利洞察描繪未解的創傷如何在暴力與不確定日增的全球化歐洲中，留下難以察覺卻無法抹滅的痕跡。