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David Szalay was born in Canada in 1974. His first novel, London and the South-East won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His other novels include The Innocent and Spring. He was was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013. He lives in London.
One of the great English novels of recent years, a work of sublime literary realism, and a blackly comic meditation on the sins and sorrows of modernity -- Rachel Cusk Wonderfully dark The Times A terrific debut, written in a present tense which flashes every so often into the past - a trick which Szalay pulls off with confidence... a tense and compelling read Independent A funny, painful, graphic demonstration that our job is a crucial part of our identity... It's compulsively readable Independent on Sunday Szalay's satire is sharp, though his depictions of rush-hour raise the blood pressure to levels that are not advisable -- Nicholas Lezard Guardian
