{"product_id":"9781681377377","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Magda Szabó","offers":[{"title":"New York Review Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-03-28","offer_id":44150917660927,"sku":"9781681377377","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_367bdd2e-1d34-44fa-9bc0-1e25a91b0fd1.jpg?v=1671248899","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781681377377","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}