An original BBC Radio 4 commission, Turbulence is the new short story sequence from the Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is.
David Szalay is the author of four previous works of fiction- Spring, The Innocent, London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, and All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Budapest.
More tales of mortality from a master of the genre... [Turbulence]
is a chilling achievement.
*Evening Standard*
A portrait of our species at a time of crisis... Szalay is our
greatest chronicler of these rootless, tradeworn places, and the
desperate, itinerant lives of those who inhabit them.
*Observer*
Ingenious… [David Szalay] knows about people… Stark and spare,
Turbulence is an impressive novel.
*Spectator*
Reading David Szalay is like receiving a series of electric shocks:
his preference for short, sharp sketches, rather than a single,
linear plot, means that his books deny the reader the comforts of
conventional, more languid storytelling… Szalay’s stories may be
over in just a matter of minutes, but they are violently,
appallingly immersive.
*Daily Mail*
As Szalay consistently uproots his reader, proliferating characters
and locations, [Turbulence] could be seen as an experiment in the
limits of sympathy… a practical test for the way we feel (or fail
to feel) for others. Such calculated neutrality is the perfect foil
to some heart-stoppingly beautiful prose… Things in this elegant,
frightening, politically charged book, fall apart. They also lift
off.
*Daily Telegraph*
Szalay’s gift for inhabiting entirely different lives is as
remarkable and spooky as ever.
*The Times*
[David Szalay's] mastery of form is evident: with deft touches he
builds a tangible world.
*Radio Times*
I was intrigued by the premise and the first story didn't
disappoint, capturing that altered state which being cooped up in
[an aeroplane] seems to invoke.
*Spectator*
Beautifully and delicately told. Each perfectly-formed story is
part of a bigger narrative, as Szalay explores the way our actions
influence those around us, and highlights the fact that while our
technologically connected planet seems to be growing smaller, the
people living upon it have grown more isolated from one
another.
*Big Issue*
Especially striking, in Mr Szalay’s recent work [Turbulence], is
how easily he inhabits diverse perspectives… A willingness to leave
the dots unjoined is one of the virtues that make Mr Szalay's
fiction so rewarding.
*Economist*
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