SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Men as they really are... An ingenious book from the exceptional Granta Best Young British Novelist

Informationen zum Autor David Szalay is the author of six works of fiction, including London and the South-East , for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is , for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Turbulence , which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Klappentext 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 which he was awarded the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Budapest. Zusammenfassung Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.

Vorwort
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Men as they really are... An ingenious book from the exceptional Granta Best Young British Novelist

Autorentext
David Szalay is the author of six works of fiction, including London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Klappentext

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 which he was awarded the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Budapest.

Zusammenfassung
Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.