Books like Flesh
István is fifteen and living with his mother on a housing estate in a small Hungarian town when an affair with an older married neighbour ends in disaster, and the novel follows him over decades, through the army and on to London and the world of the very rich.
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The Line of Beauty
A young gay man in Thatcher-era London befriends a conservative MP's family and watches privilege, denial, and desire collide as the AIDS crisis approaches.
The Slap
At a suburban barbecue in Melbourne a man slaps a badly behaved child who isn't his, and eight people who were there tell what happened next.
The Post-Office Girl
A poor Austrian post-office clerk is briefly swept into a luxury Swiss resort by a rich aunt and returns to her village unable to bear the life she had.
Absurdistan
The 325-pound son of a Russian oligarch, barred from returning to his beloved New York, gets caught up in a civil war over oil in a tiny former Soviet republic.
The Lonely Londoners
Moses Aloetta, an old hand in London, meets the new arrivals from the West Indies at Waterloo station and helps them find rooms and work through the grey seasons of the 1950s.
White Ivy
Ivy Lin, raised outside Boston by strict Chinese grandparents and skilled at petty theft, has wanted Gideon Speyer, the golden son of a political family, since they were children, and years later she runs into him again.
Season of Migration to the North
A young Sudanese man, back in his Nile village after seven years studying in England, finds a stranger living there, Mustafa Sa'eed, who has his own story of London.
The Road Home
Lev, a widower from a village in Eastern Europe, comes to London to earn money for his mother and small daughter, and finds work washing dishes in a fashionable restaurant.
The Promised Land
In the booming textile city of Łódź in the 1880s, three friends, a Pole, a German and a Jew, scheme to build a factory of their own in a place where everything is for sale.
The Guest
Sent away by the older man she has been living with on Long Island, twenty-two-year-old Alex has a week until his Labor Day party, and she drifts from house to house among the rich, hoping to win him back.
The Forsyte Saga
Three novels following the Forsytes, a wealthy London family of the late Victorian age, beginning with Soames, a solicitor who treats his beautiful wife Irene as one more of his possessions.
NW
Four Londoners' lives intersect in the northwest neighbourhood of Kilburn, spanning three decades of British class, race, and the stories we tell about our futures.