David Szalay

**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice** From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world. A woman strikes up a conversation with the man sitting next to her on a plane after some turbulence. He returns home to tragic news that has also impacted another stranger, a shaken pilot on his way to another continent who seeks comfort from a journalist he meets that night. Her life shifts subtly as well, before she heads to the airport on an assignment that will shift more lives in turn. In this wondrous, profoundly moving novel, Szalay’s diverse protagonists circumnavigate the planet in twelve flights, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers or estranged siblings, aging parents, baby grandchildren, or nobody at all. Along the way, they experience the full range of human emotions from loneliness to love and, knowingly or otherwise, change each other in one brief, electrifying interaction after the next. Written with magic and economy and beautifully exploring the delicate, crisscrossed nature of relationships today, Turbulence is a dazzling portrait of the interconnectedness of the modern world.

A Novel

Turbulence

A Spectator / New Statesman / Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Times Literary Supplement / Observer Book of the Year SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Winner of the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize 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.

All That Man Is

Flesh

The U.S. debut of leading U.K. author David Szalay, named one of The Daily Telegraph's twenty best British novelists under forty James is a man with a checkered past--sporadic entrepreneur, one-time film producer, almost a dot-com millionaire--now alone in a flat in Bloomsbury, running a shady horse-racing-tips operation. Katherine is a manager at a luxury hotel, a job she'd intended to leave years ago, and is separated from her husband. The novel unfolds in 2006, at the end of the money-for-nothing years, as a chance meeting leads to an awkward tryst and James tries to make sense of a relationship where "no" means "maybe" and a "yes" can never be taken for granted. David Szalay builds a novel of immense resonance as he cycles though perspectives that add layers of depth to the hesitations, missteps, and tensions as James tries to win Katherine. James's other pursuit is money, and Spring follows his investments and schemes, from a half share in a thoroughbred to a suit-and-tie day job he's taken to pay the bills. Spring is a sharply tuned novel so nuanced and precise in its psychology that it establishes Szalay as a major talent.

Spring

Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Vibrating with detail and intelligence, pathos and surprise, All That Man Is is a portrait of contemporary manhood, contemporary Europe and contemporary life from a British writer of supreme gifts - the master of a new kind of realism.

All that man is

Nove uomini, in diverse età della vita, dall'adolescenza alla vecchiaia. Un continente, l'Europa oggi – da Cipro alla Croazia, dalle Fiandre alla Svizzera –, fotografato in una luce cruda, quasi senza ombre. I nove fanno quasi tutte le cose che i maschi sono soliti fare: inseguono donne, le abbandonano, tentano un affare improbabile, cercano un luogo dove vivere un esilio decente, chiacchierano, sognano un'altra vita. E se a ogni capitolo tutto – protagonista, ambiente, atmosfera – cambia, fin dal primo stacco le nove storie sembrano una sola. All'inizio stentiamo a riconoscerlo, il paesaggio che David Szalay ci costringe a esplorare, finché, per ogni lettore in un punto diverso, ciò che abbiamo davanti si rivela per quel che è, in tutta la sua perturbante evidenza: il nostro tempo, quello che viviamo ogni giorno, in forma di romanzo.

Tutto quello che è un uomo

London and the South-East

This is the story of Paul Rainey, an ad salesman with Park Lane Publications Ltd. Perceiving dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life - professional, sexual, weekends, the lot - he only wishes there was something he was able to do about it. And 'something' seems to fall into his lap when a meeting with an old friend and fellow salesman, Eddy Jaw, leads to the offer of a new job. Unfortunately, this offer turns out to be as misleading as Paul's patter, and the total transformation it precipitates in his life, and the life of his family, very much more peculiar than he would ever have thought possible. Critics often lament that the world of work is rarely treated in British fiction. London and the South-East answers that need triumphantly.

Tudo o Que Um Homem É

Turbolenza

It is spring 1948 and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB - forerunner of the KGB - is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic in the Ural mountains to investigate one of the patients there, Anatoly Yudin, a man long presumed dead, once a famous pianist, now a severely incapacitated veteran of the Second World War...Twenty-four years later, in the summer of 1972 - the summer of Nixon's visit to Moscow, of the Fischer-Spassky chess match, of the Munich Olympics and their hostage crisis - the Cold War is entering detente, and the values that shaped Aleksandr's life are starting to dissolve into uncertainty. Haunted by the events of the past, and with his Stalinist faith once more under threat, he interrogates his memories of the Yudin case, and tries to trace its effects on himself, and on those he loved most. We know the horrors of the police state and the purges, but The Innocent takes us on a journey into the everyday of Communist Russia, bringing alive the intensely personal consequences of a regime, the power of institutions and ideologies to define a life - to crush it or invest it with meaning. Following on from the success of his prize-winning debut, David Szalay returns with a searing work of acute realism and bleak beauty, the breathtaking next stage of a major literary career.

The Innocent

Secondo studi recenti, una conseguenza imprevista del riscaldamento globale sarebbero turbolenze molto più frequenti rispetto al passato, e soprattutto imprevedibili. Nel mondo fisico può essere vero oppure no, ma in questo romanzo di David Szalay i dodici personaggi che da un capitolo all’altro si passano il testimone non sanno davvero cosa potrà succedere, fra il terminal delle partenze e quello degli arrivi, né che esito avrà il loro disperato tentativo di fuga. E se i maschi di «Tutto quello che è un uomo» avevano ancora un continente di terra e acqua in cui tentare di mimetizzarsi, sfuggendo alle proprie catastrofi interiori, gli uomini e le donne di «Turbolenza» vivono in aria – come, sempre più spesso, molti di noi. E, come molti di noi, sanno che dall’aria non si può sperare di proteggersi: nell’aria, soprattutto, non si può sperare di nascondersi.

Eley Williams

Kamila Shamsie

Alex Preston

The Balvenie Stories Collection

Pursuit

The U.S. debut of leading U.K. author Szalay, named one of "The Daily Telegraph's" 20 best British novelists under 40. Set in 2006, this novel follows James, a one-time film producer who now runs a shady horse-racing-tips operation, as he pursues both money and a married woman.

*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice* A “masterful” (The Washington Post), “cathartic” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world—from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of All That Man Is. In this “compelling” (The Christian Science Monitor), “crisp and clever” (Vanity Fair) novel, Szalay’s diverse protagonists circumnavigate the planet in twelve flights, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers or estranged siblings, aging parents, baby grandchildren, or nobody at all. Along the way, they experience the full range of human emotions from loneliness to love and, knowingly or otherwise, change each other in one brief, electrifying interaction after the next. Written with magic and economy, “Szalay explores the miraculous ability of our shared humanity to lift us from loneliness” (Esquire) and delivers a dazzling portrait of the interconnectedness of the modern world.

Zwölf Menschen begegnen sich, während ihr Leben in Turbulenzen gerät. Auf dem unruhigen Flug nach Madrid kommt eine Frau, die ihren krebskranken Sohn in London besucht hat, mit ihrem Sitznachbarn ins Gespräch. Der Geschäftsmann aus dem Senegal weiß noch nicht, dass ihn in Dakar die Nachricht eines tragischen Unfalls erwartet, bei dem ein Frachtpilot Zeuge wurde. In diesem höchst spannenden Roman berührt jedes Leben das nächste, ob es der indische Golfer ist, der seinen senilen Vater bestiehlt, oder die Tochter einer ausgewanderten Deutschen, die einen syrischen Flüchtling heiraten will. Mit magischer Schwerelosigkeit nimmt uns der international gefeierte Autor David Szalay mit auf eine Reise rund um die Welt.

Roman

Turbulenzen

Etienne Gomez

« Un livre magistral, d'une intensité saisissante. » The Washington Post Douze vols, douze voyageurs en transit à travers la planète, douze destins individuels liés les uns aux autres. Après Ce qu'est l'homme, finaliste du Man Booker Prize, l'écrivain britannique David Szalay nous emmène aux quatre coins du monde, explorant ce lieu de passage par excellence qu'est l'aéroport. De Londres à Madrid, de Dakar à São Paolo, à Toronto et à Doha, ce sont des fragments d'existence qui tissent le récit pour finalement se rejoindre. Avec une impressionnante économie de moyens et une grande subtilité, Szalay en saisit l'essence, captant chez chacun de ces êtres, en suspens à des milliers de mètres d'altitude, les zones de turbulences auxquelles la vie les expose. En offrant une vision panoramique en perpétuel mouvement, Turbulences esquisse un portrait de l'humanité en temps de crise, et nous interroge sur notre place et notre rapport aux autres dans ce vaste réseau interconnecté qu'est le monde d'aujourd'hui. Rabat bio David Szalay, né en 1974 à Montréal et élevé à Londres, vit à Budapest. Il a été sélectionné par Granta comme l'un des romanciers britanniques les plus talentueux de sa génération. Son précédent roman, Ce qu'est l'homme, traduit dans une quinzaine de langues, a été récompensé par le Plimpton Prize for Fiction et le Gordon Burn Prize. Turbulences, qui a rencontré un immense succès critique en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis, confirme sa singularité sur la scène littéraire anglo-saxonne. Rabat presse « David Szalay s'impose comme le plus formidable chroniqueur des lieux sans âme et sans racines, ainsi que des vies itinérantes et désespérées de ceux qui y habitent. » The Guardian « Un livre profond et étonnamment bouleversant. L'auteur confirme une fois de plus son étrange et remarquable talent lorsqu'il s'agit de se glisser dans des vies à mille lieues de la sienne. » The Times « Un livre élégant et impressionnant. Page après page, le mélange de pudeur et de franchise dont fait preuve David Szalay se révèle toujours plus éblouissant. » The Financial Times

Turbulences

Neuf hommes, âgés de 17 à 73 ans, tous à une étape différente de leur vie et dispersés aux quatre coins de l'Europe, essayent de comprendre ce que signifie être vivant. Tels sont les personnages mis en scène par David Szalay à la façon d'un arc de cercle chronologique illustrant tous les âges de la vie. En juxtaposant ces existences singulières au cours d'une seule et même année, l'auteur montre les hommes tels qu'ils sont : tantôt incapables d'exprimer leurs émotions, provocateurs ou méprisables, tantôt hilarants, touchants, riches d'envies et de désirs face au temps qui passe. Et le paysage qu'il nous invite à explorer, multiple et kaléidoscopique, apparaît alors au fil des pages dans sa plus troublante évidence : il déroule le roman de notre vie. Avec ce livre, finaliste du Man Booker Prize, le jeune auteur britannique offre un portrait saisissant des hommes du XXIe siècle et réussit, en disséquant ainsi la masculinité d'aujourd'hui, à dépeindre avec force le désarroi et l'inquiétude qui habitent l'Europe moderne. « La démonstration d'une puissance littéraire hors du commun. Magnifique. » The New York Times

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