Born in 1914 in Czernovitz in what is now Ukraine, the author was successively a citizen of Austro-Hungary, Romania and the Soviet Union as the bloody tides of the C20th swept to and fro before becoming stateless. This extraordinary memoir – unsentimental, startlingly clear, often shocking – is written through portraits of his mother, his father, his sister and his remarkable Ruthenian wetnurse/nanny, who spoke several languages but none fluently. No nostalgia here but instead a vivid and unforgettable portrait of a vanished world whose shades remain with us, intensely so. “Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?”
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography
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The most popular of Szabo's books in her native Hungary, published for the first time in English. It forms a loose trilogy with 'The Door' and 'Katalin Street'.
Abigail
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This is the first time these stories by the author of the Transylvanian Trilogy have been published in English. Wise and strange.
The Enchanted Night: Selected Tales
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Women
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