Results for "Rix, Len"

From the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past.In The Door, in Iza’s Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between ... Read More about The Fawn

One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"An NYRB Classics Original The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungar... Read More about The Door (NYRB Classics)

An early-twentieth-century classic — the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia“No one who has read it has failed to love it.”  — Nicholas LezardMihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in Italy. Mihály has recently joined the resp... Read More about Journey by Moonlight (Pushkin Press Classics)

From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary. Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been hap... Read More about Abigail

While visiting a Welsh castle, a young scholar finds himself at the center of occult rituals and a murder mystery in this “absolute treat” of a gothic detective story (The Guardian) At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of... Read More about The Pendragon Legend (Pushkin Press Classics)

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEFrom the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II.In prewar Budapest three families ... Read More about Katalin Street