Autor: Magda Szab

** NOW SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019 **** 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 …

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&q …

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 he …

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 …

"One of Hungary’s most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times"Magda Szab ‘s fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating an …