{"product_id":"9781529425659-the-fawn","title":"The Fawn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous. Yet even flushed with the success of adulthood, Eszter craves acceptance of herself as she really is and of the person she has been. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe only child of an impoverished aristocrat and a harried music teacher failing to make ends meet, Eszter grew up poor and painfully aware of it in a provincial Hungarian town.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe feelings of resentment and envy acquired during her fraught childhood have hardened into an obsessional hatred for one person, the beautiful, saintly and pampered Angela, Eszter's former classmate and the wife of the man who becomes her lover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against newly communist 1950s Hungary, \u003ci\u003eThe Fawn\u003c\/i\u003e embraces the lies and falsehoods people were obliged to live with in those nightmarish times, and displays Szabo's uncanny ability to convey how the past can haunt and consume us.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the Hungarian by Len Rix.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagda Szabo was born in Debrecen, eastern Hungary, in 1917, and began her working life as a teacher. From 1949 onwards her work was banned, but she burst onto the literary scene in 1958 with the publication of \u003ci\u003eFresco\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn. The Fawn \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1959, \u003ci\u003eKatalin Street \u003c\/i\u003ein 1969 and \u003ci\u003eAbigail\u003c\/i\u003e in 1970. In 1987, publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e brought her international recognition and was the winner of the Prix Femina and the Mondello Prize. She died in 2007. In 2016 \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e was chosen as Best Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46518060351707,"sku":"9781529425659","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ea31bae5a2a14a3bace09d93ec97ca43.png?v=1740092304","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781529425659-the-fawn","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}