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An unsentimental Hungarian education: Abigail, by Magda Szabó, reviewed

7 February 2020

10:00 PM

7 February 2020

10:00 PM

Abigai Magda Szabó, translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix

Maclehose Press, pp.448, £14.99

Although widely read in her native Hungary, Magda Szabó, who died in 2007, did not gain international acclaim until the mid-1990s with the translations of her novels The Door and Katalin Street. Abigail, which was originally published in 1970 and is her best-known book, now appears in English for the first time in a superb translation by Len Rix.

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