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Iza''s Ballad

English

By (author): Magda Szabo

Translated by: George Szirtes

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 her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it right. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, in her naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute in for tea.

Izas Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her lifes companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known. It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over a lifetime.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 234g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Aug 2015
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780099532385

About Magda Szabo

Magda Szabó was born in 1917 in Debrecen Hungary. She began her literary career as a poet. In the 1950s she disappeared from the publishing scene for political reasons and made her living by teaching and translating from French and English. She began writing novels and in 1978 was awarded the Kossuth Prize the most prestigious literary award in Hungary. Magda Szabó died in 2007.

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