{"product_id":"the-fawn","title":"The Fawn","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbigail \u003c\/i\u003eand for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Door\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eIza's Ballad\u003c\/i\u003e, and in \u003ci\u003eAbigail\u003c\/i\u003e, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of \u003ci\u003eThe Fawn\u003c\/i\u003e, may well be Szabó's most fascinating creation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEszter is an only child. She grows up in a provincial Hungarian town with her father, an eccentric aristocrat and steeply downwardly mobile flower breeder, and her mother, a harried music teacher failing to make ends meet, in the years before World War II. In postwar Communist Hungary, Eszter has moved to Budapest and become a star of the stage, but she has forgotten no slight and forgiven nobody, least of all her too kind and beautiful classmate Angela. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fawn\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds as Eszter's confession, filled with the rage of a lifetime and born, we come to sense, of irreversible regret. It is a tale of childhood, of the theater, of the collateral damage of the riven twentieth century, of hatred, and, in the end, a tragic tale of love.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47949315309757,"sku":"BS-TC0-377377","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781681377377-HD.jpg?v=1785978536","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/the-fawn","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}