{"product_id":"the-fawn-9781681377377","title":"The Fawn","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbigail \u003c\/i\u003eand 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eIza's Ballad\u003c\/i\u003e, and in \u003ci\u003eAbigail\u003c\/i\u003e, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of \u003ci\u003eThe Fawn\u003c\/i\u003e, may well be Szabó's most fascinating creation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEszter is an only child. She grows up in a provincial Hungarian town with her father, an eccentric aristocrat and steeply downwardly mobile flower breeder, and her mother, a harried music teacher failing to make ends meet, in the years before World War II. In postwar Communist Hungary, Eszter has moved to Budapest and become a star of the stage, but she has forgotten no slight and forgiven nobody, least of all her too kind and beautiful classmate Angela. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fawn\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Magda Szabó\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.24w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681377377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMagda Szabó\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-2007) is considered one of Hungary's greatest novelists. Her novels, dramas, essays, and poetry have been published in forty-two countries and in 2003 she was awarded the Prix Femina étranger for \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e. The NYRB Classics edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as one of the \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10 Best Books of 2015. NYRB Classics also publishes Szabó's novels \u003ci\u003eIza's Ballad, Katalin Street\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAbigail\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLen Rix\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, critic, and former literature professor. In 2006, he was awarded the Oxford-Weidendfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Magda Szabó's \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Magda Szab\u0026#195;\u0026#179; \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47809137475741,"sku":"9781681377377","price":35.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_fc572e76-46c1-4dc0-bfa3-059546c12216.jpg?v=1775557161","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-fawn-9781681377377","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}