All That Man Is Av David Szalay

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE</b><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL READER'S CHOICE AWARD<br></b><br>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. <br><br>Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, <i>All That Man Is</i> 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.</p>