All That Man Is by David Szalay

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

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

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH

‘Increasingly looking like the masterpiece of British fiction from the past few years’ Evening Standard

Nine men. 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.

Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are – ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.

WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL READER’S CHOICE AWARD

‘Some of the best prose to be found in English this year’ Guardian

‘Exact and true and always subtly intelligent’ Tessa Hadley

‘It’s a rare and wonderous event when a novel changes the way you look at the world around you’ William Boyd

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.

About the Author: 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.

06 Apr 2017
 

All That Man Is by David Szalay ISBN 9780099593690