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Abigail

Fourteen-year-old Gina, the spoiled daughter of a Hungarian general, rails against being sent to boarding school far from Budapest when war breaks out, but finds help in a statue of Abigail and her new "sisters."

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Main Author:	Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007 (Author)
Other Authors:	Rix, Len (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Hungarian
Published:	New York : New York Review Books, [2020]
Series:	New York Review Books classics
Subjects:	Boarding schools > Fiction. Schools > Fiction. Fathers and daughters > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Hungary > Fiction. Hungary > History > 1918-1945 > Fiction.
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Summary:	Fourteen-year-old Gina, the spoiled daughter of a Hungarian general, rails against being sent to boarding school far from Budapest when war breaks out, but finds help in a statue of Abigail and her new "sisters."
Item Description:	Translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix.
Physical Description:	333 pages ; cm
ISBN:	9781681374031
Author Notes:	Magda Szabó (1917-2007) is considered one of Hungary's greatest novelists. Her prose, dramas, essays, and poetry have been published in forty-two countries and in 2003 she was awarded the Prix Femina Étranger for The Door . The NYRB Classics edition of The Door was selected as one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2015. NYRB Classics also publishes her novels Iza's Ballad and Katalin Street . Len Rix is a poet, critic, and former literature professor. In 2006, he was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Magda Szabó's The Door .