European Writers Salon is delighted to invite you to join us for our quarterly Café Littéraire: European Book Club. Each quarter we read a different European book and discuss it. All are welcome, wherever you live!

Your host Eleonora Balsano. Eleonora Balsano is an Italian journalist, writer, and podcaster based in Brussels. Her short fiction has won or has been listed in several international competitions and is featured in Portland Review, JMWW, and elsewhere. She is the host and producer of Chosen Tongue, a podcast dedicated to translingual writers and their journeys. You can find her on Twitter @norami, Instagram @ebalwriter, and on her website: eleonorabalsano.net.

This quarter, we will be discussing the Booker Prize winner 2025, Flesh. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated,…