The international bestseller. "Hypnotically tense and compelling... An astonishingly moving portrait of a man's life" Booker Prize Judges, 2025. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he becomes isolated, with his neighbour - a married woman - as his only companion.
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When a clandestine relationship begins between them, his life spirals out of control. As the years pass, István moves from the army to the circles of London's elite. His competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth with him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. (4e de couverture)
