All That Man Is - David Szalay Pages:448 pages takes us into a fever

takes us into a fever dream of fragmented thoughts and half-finished sentences

on the brink of collapse after a devastating zombie outbreak

of the act and the art of living

teaches them the true meaning of friendship and reminds us all that there is no place like home

Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man

All That Man Is - David Szalay Pages:448 pages takes us into a feverTHE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH 'Increasingly looking like the masterpiece of British fiction from the past few years' Evening StandardNine 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