Abigail forms a loose trilogy, alongside The Door and Katalin Street ‘about the impact of war on those who have to live with the consequences.’ There is even a rock opera based upon it, which performs in Budapest. When MacLehose press approached me to ask if I wanted a copy of her most famous novel, Abigail, which was first published in 1970, I jumped at the chance.Ībigail, translated for the first time into English by Len Rix, is the most widely read novel among secondary school pupils in Hungary. For one reason or another, however, I have failed to pick up either of her other novels which have since been translated into English, Iza’s Ballad and Katalin Street. Like many readers, I quite enjoyed Hungarian author Magda Szabó’s novella, The Door, when I read it some years ago.
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