Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa

David Szalay Reads from His Novel, Flesh, Exploring a Tour of Duty in Iraq

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David Szalay, a díjnyertes szerző, Dua Lipa vendége a Service95 Book Club podcastban, hogy megvitassák Szalay "Flesh" című regényét, amelyet október havi könyvként választottak. A regény az emberi sérülékenység pillanatait örökíti meg. Szalay elolvas egy a háborúból való…

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This month on the Service95 Book Club podcast, Dua is joined by award-winning author David Szalay to discuss his quietly powerful novel Flesh – selected as Dua’s Monthly Read for October.

Told through a series of spare, intimate portraits, the novel captures moments of human vulnerability with a precision that feels deeply real.

In a Service95 exclusive, David reads from a chapter set in Iraq, where the protagonist István and his fellow soldiers find themselves beside a hotel pool, suspended in the strange stillness of their return from war.

There is no drama, no action – just silence, heat, and waiting. “The idea of the soldiers having this very boring journey back from Iraq at the end of their tour of duty there… the boring texture of returning… that seemed to me to unlock the strong flavour of reality,” David tells Dua in their conversation, recorded live at the New York Public Library, which is also available as a podcast here .

It’s a powerful moment in Flesh , and a testament to the realism that threads through the entire novel.

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