Abigail

Εκδότης: GARDNERS
Συγγραφέας: Magda Szabo
Isbn: 9780857058492
Διαστάσεις: 196Χ128Χ32
Αριθμός σελίδων: 448
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 6/1/2021
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Περιγραφη

"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 read in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after it was written, it appears for the first time in English, joining Katalin Street and The Door in a loose trilogy about the impact of war on those who have to live with the consequences. It is late 1943 and Hitler, exasperated by the slowness of his Hungarian ally to act on the ""Jewish question"" and alarmed by the weakness on his southern flank, is preparing to occupy the country. Foreseeing this, and concerned for his daughter's safety, a Budapest father decides to send her to a boarding school away from the capital. A lively, sophisticated, somewhat spoiled teenager, she