David Szalay

Yeah.

And he mentions David Szalay's Booker Prize-winning novel, Flesh.

These are serious, grounded, mature works.

But the article heavily emphasizes the profound and lasting impact of one specific monumental classic George Orwell's 1984

It shows a desire to understand the micro just as much as the macro.

His second pick is a novel called Flesh by David Szalay.

Uh, it's a Booker Prize winner, and structurally it's a sprawling narrative.

It spans fifty years following the life of a single ordinary man named Istvan.