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The Fawn

English

By (author): Magda Szabó

Translated by: Len Rix

LONGLISTED FOR THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION 2023

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 flushed with the success of adulthood, Eszter craves acceptance of herself as she really is and of the person she has been.

The only child of an impoverished aristocrat and a harried music teacher failing to make ends meet, Eszter grew up poor and painfully aware of it in a provincial Hungarian town.

The feelings of resentment and envy acquired during her fraught childhood have hardened into an obsessional hatred for one person, the beautiful, saintly and pampered Angela, Eszter's former classmate and the wife of the man who becomes her lover.

Set against newly communist 1950s Hungary, The Fawn embraces the lies and falsehoods people were obliged to live with in those nightmarish times, and displays Szabo's uncanny ability to convey how the past can haunt and consume us.

Translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 297g
  • Dimensions: 134 x 214mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Feb 2023
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529425642

About Magda Szabó

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.

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