Summary
Abigail: A Novel of War, Courage, and Growing Up
A teenage girl’s difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war.
“A school story for grownups that is also about our inability or refusal to protect children from history” SARAH MOSS
“Of all Szabo’s novels, Abigail deserves the widest readership. It’s an adventure story, brilliantly written” TIBOR FISCHER
Of all her novels, Magda Szabo’s Abigail is indeed the most widely…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857058492 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857058495 |
| Author: | Magda Szabo, Len Rix |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
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 - Economist
This infectious coming-of-age novel from Szabo, released in 1970 and translated into English for the first time, is a rollicking delight … Szabo pairs the psychological insights reader will recognize from her novel The Door with action more akin to Harry Potter. Gina is one of Szabo’s finest creations. - Publisher’s WeeklyAbout The Author
Magda Szabo
Magda Szabo 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.
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