{"product_id":"9780857058478-katalin-street","title":"Katalin Street","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWINNER of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lives of three intertwined families in prewar Budapest are shattered in the German occupation - by the bestselling author of THE DOOR.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBY THE AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE DOOR\u003c\/i\u003e, ONE OF \u003ci\u003eNYTBR\u003c\/i\u003e'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** SHORTLISTED FOR T\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019 **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary\" \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quite unforgettable\" \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Unusual, piercing . oddly percipient\"\u003ci\u003e Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gorgeous elegy\" \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brightly shining star in the Szabo universe\" \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Bálint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Irén Elekes, the headmaster's dutiful elder daughter, over her younger sister, the scatterbrained Blanka, and little Henriette Held, the daughter of the Jewish dentist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir lives are torn apart in 1944 by the German occupation, which only the Elekes family survives intact. The postwar regime relocates them to a cramped Soviet-style apartment and they struggle to come to terms with social and political change, personal loss, and unstated feelings of guilt over the deportation of the Held parents and the death of little Henriette, who had been left in their protection. But the girl survives in a miasmal afterlife, and reappears at key moments as a mute witness to the inescapable power of past events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs in \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIza's Ballad\u003c\/i\u003e, Magda Szabó conducts a clear-eyed investigation into the ways in which we inflict suffering on those we love. \u003ci\u003eKatalin Street\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2007 Prix Cévennes for Best European novel, is a poignant, sombre, at times harrowing book, but beautifully conceived and truly unforgettable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Hungarian by Len Rix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449750892918,"sku":"9780857058478","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_9268712_jpg.jpg?v=1760446638","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780857058478-katalin-street","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}