In Person Meetup

• What we'll do

Finish reading, then join us in person, share your insights over a meal and/or drink(s) at Bar Storia del Caffè, The Salil Hotel. It’s on Soi Sukhumvit 57 and is a 5-minute walk from BTS Thonglor station.

Approximately 368 pages. It’s available at Kinokuniya Bookstore for 621 baht https://thailand.kinokuniya.com/bw/9780224099790?cookie=1b3bd6c3f07b9d2703ce9a641303c66c&prod=0224099795, $14.99 on amazon kindle or $19.49 (non-member price) as an audiobook on audible.com (9 hours 36 minutes).

Should anyone who RSVP’s be looking for the epub version please send a message to the host.

Synopsis

Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the years that follow, István is born along by the goodwill, or self-interest, of strangers, charting a rocky yet upward trajectory that lands him further from his childhood, and the defining events that abruptly ended it, than he could possibly have imagined.

A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, “Flesh” chronicles a man at odds with himself—estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Shadowed by the specter of past tragedy and the apathy of modernity, the tension between István and all that alienates him hurtles forward until sudden tragedy again throws life as he knows it in jeopardy.

• Important to know

No entrance fee, no membership fees. Your patronage of the cafe is highly appreciated, as usage of their facility is without charge. Expect meal/drink to average 450 baht thereaboutsm

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“Flesh” by David Szalay
(Note: new meetup day: Tuesday) 

Bar Storia del Caffè, The Salil Hotel

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