Those invaluable volumes are now joined by “Abigail,” a tense, intimate narrative that brilliantly depicts youthful innocence ensnared by lethal menace.
(Hermann Hesse was an early advocate.) The author of 50 works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, she remains best known for the novels “Iza’s Ballad” (1963), “Katalin Street” (1969) and “The Door” (1987), all later published in translation by New York Review Books.
For Szabó had long been not only Hungary’s most beloved writer, but also a monumental literary figure to readers and writers world-wide.
When Magda Szabó died in 2007 at the age of 90, the funeral bells that rang out in her native city of Debrecen on Hungary’s Great Plain seemed to echo across Europe.
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