Flesh (David Szalay)

Booker Prize winner, and a fascinating, propulsive read. What makes it so remarkable is the way it tells the story through the eyes of a profoundly emotionally stunted man who has almost no insight into himself. He simply doesn’t have the emotional vocabulary to understand his own inner life. The result is an unusually restrained but deeply affecting novel that invites the reader to perceive the vast emotional landscape that lies beyond what the narrator himself can see or say.