Katalin Street - WINNER of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize

Zusatztext Her fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles . . . Szabo summons the cosy! closed world with a lyrical! quicksilver touch that makes the thuggish intrusions of despotic power all the more wrenching. Informationen zum Autor Magda Szabó was born in Debrecen, eastern Hungary, in 1917, and began her working life as a teacher. From 1949 onwards her work was banned, but she burst onto the literary scene in 1958 with the publication of Fresco and The Dawn. The Fawn was first published in 1959, Katalin Street in 1969 and Abigail in 1970. In 1987, publication of The Door brought her international recognition and was the winner of the Prix Femina and the Mondello Prize. She died in 2007. In 2016 The Door was chosen as Best Book of the Year by the New York Times . Klappentext The lives of three intertwined families in prewar Budapest are shattered in the German occupation - by the bestselling author of THE DOOR. Zusammenfassung The lives of three intertwined families in prewar Budapest are shattered in the German occupation - by the bestselling author of THE DOOR.

Product details

• Authors: Magda Szabo, Magda Szabó, Szabo Magda
• Assisted by: Len Rix (Translation), Rix Len (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780857058478
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-847-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Eastern Europe, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Hungary, Modern and contemporary fiction