Canadian author David Szalay is among the six authors shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

The £50,000 (approx. $92,000 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K.

Szalay is shortlisted for his novel which follows 15-year-old István, whose affair with a married woman sends his life spiraling out of control.

(McClelland & Stewart)

As István grows older, he continues to live a life of recklessness, achieving all his desires for a time — until they threaten to undo him completely.

David Szalay's Turbulence looks at how we're disconnected in a connected world

Szalay's novel was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016 and won the Gordon Burn Prize that same year. His other books include and , which won th

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