British-Hungarian author David Zalay joins Ivy Jackson on arts24 to discuss his controversial Booker Prize-winning novel Flesh, which follows Istvan – the silent, violent and disturbing protagonist – from a bleak Hungarian tenement to London’s super-rich elite. Salaj reveals why he called his book “risky,” how he made readers care about someone who says “OK” 400 times, and what happens when Stormzy and Dua Lipa champion your work.
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