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Abigail by Magda Szabo; Len Rix (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Of all Szabó's novels, Abigail deserves the widest readership . . . Brilliantly written" TIBOR FISCHER"Szabó is skilful at creating moments of heart-rending tension, often through exquisite, evocative prose . . . the novel has a devastating power" SpectatorA teenage girl's difficult journey towards adu ...Show more
Abigail by Magda Szabo
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A cult coming-of-age novel by the author of THE DOOR and KATALIN STREET. Magda Szabo's Abigail is the most widely read of all her novels in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after its original publication, it appears in English for the first time. Gina, the only child of a widowed general, lives a co ...Show more
Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabo
16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015 An NYRB Classics Original Like Magda Szabo s internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza s Ballad is a striking story of the relationship between two women, in this case a mother and a daughter ...Show more
Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabo; George Szirtes (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it right. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the ...Show more
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo; Len Rix (Translator)
15.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II. In prewar Budapest three famili ...Show more
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE - BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015 In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Bálint, the ...Show more
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo; Len Rix (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF NYTBR'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015 ** WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE ** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019 ** "Extraordinary" New York Times "Quite unforgettable" Daily Telegraph "Unusual, piercing . . . oddly percipient" Irish Times "A ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid. Although everyone in the neighbourhood knows and respects her, no one knows anything about her private life or has ever cros ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo; Len Rix (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, ca ...Show more
The Fawn by Magda Szabo
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times "Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles" Economist Eszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous. Yet even flushe ...Show more
The Fawn by Magda Szabo
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times"Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles" EconomistEszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous. Yet even flushed wi ...Show more
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