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The Fawn

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The Fawn

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"In The Door, in Iza's Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabâo describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of The Fawn, may well be Szabâo's most fascinating creation. Eszter, an only child, her father an eccentric aristocrat and steeply downwardly mobile flower breeder, her mother a harried music teacher failing to make ends meet, grows up poor and painfully aware of it in a provincial Hungarian town. This is before World War II, and Eszter, as she tells her story of childhood loneliness and hunger, has forgotten no slight and forgiven nobody, least of all her beautiful classmate Angela, whose unforced kindness to her left the deepest wound. And yet Eszter, post-war-which is when she has come to remember all these things-is a star of the stage, now settled in Budapest, where Angela, a devout Communist married to an esteemed scholar and translator of Shakespeare, also lives. The Fawn unfolds as Eszter's confession, filled with the rage of a lifetime and born, we come to sense, of irreversible regret. It is a tale of childhood, of the theater, of the collateral damage of the riven twentieth century, of hatred, and, in the end, a tragic tale of love"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
285
Release Date:
2023-03-28
Publication Date:
2023-03-28
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1681377373
ISBN13:
9781681377377
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
308 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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