The Fawn

by Magda Szabó

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2nd February 2023

Price: £14.99

Genre

C 1914 To C 1918 (including Ww1) / Fiction In Translation / First World War / First World War Fiction / Hungary / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781529425642

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Reviews

Economist

Magda Szabó's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles

New York Times

One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers

LitHub

Magda Szabó's work casts an indirect light upon the dimness that exists between our public and private selves, a place wherein our betrayals-both personal and political-flicker uneasily over the walls

Nick Holdstock, Times Literary Supplement

What distinguishes this novel from being a fairy tale is its psychological complexity

World Literature Today

Szabó's prose is a powerful reminder of just how resonant the relationship between language and memory can be

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