![]() ![]() In fact, the Budapest-based British author manages much more, and with far greater feeling than such a taxonomical approach might threaten. That David Szalay’s latest novel, which was shortlisted this year for the Booker Prize, manages to pull off even half of what it sets before the reader in a schema like this is remarkable. A book about youth and ambition and migration and aging and death and masculinity and time and the search for meaning in a post-meaning world, all themes reaching together toward some kind of universality by way of a measured schematic progression. ![]() IT’S A CLASSICALLY - even self-consciously - modernist setup for a book: nine sections, proceeding sequentially from April to December nine protagonists, advancing in age from 17 to 73 all European men traveling within Europe. ![]()
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