David Szalay discerns a shared longing in the hearts of nine ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable, vital, pitiable, hilarious men.
David Szalay
Author and novelist David Szalay was born in Canada, grew up in London and now lives in Budapest.
He has written four novels, including Spring, The Innocent and London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize. His novel All That Man Is won the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize.
All nominated books