{"product_id":"abigail-9780857058485","title":"Abigail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Of all Szabó's novels,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAbigail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edeserves the widest readership . . . Brilliantly written\" TIBOR FISCHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Szabó is skilful at creating moments of heart-rending tension, often through exquisite, evocative prose . . . the novel has a devastating power\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSpectator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf all her novels, Magda Szabó's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAbigail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the most widely read in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after it was written, it appears for the first time in English, joining \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKatalin Street\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Door\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in a loose trilogy about the impact of war on those who have to live with the consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lively, sophisticated, somewhat spoiled teenager, she is not impressed by the reasons she is given, and when the school turns out to be a fiercely Puritanical one in a provincial city a long way from home, she rebels outright. Her superior attitude offends her new classmates and things quickly turn sour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the start of a long and bitter learning curve that will open her eyes to her arrogant blindness to other people's true motives and feelings. Exposed for the first time to the realities of life for those less privileged than herself, and increasingly confronted by evidence of the more sinister purposes of the war, she learns lessons about the nature of loyalty, courage, sacrifice and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTranslated from the Hungarian by Len Rix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42828863930574,"sku":"9780857058485","price":22.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9780857058485_a.png?v=1729850620","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/abigail-9780857058485","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}