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Katalin Street (new York Review Books Classics) by Magda Szabó is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II.In 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. Their 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...

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Magda Szabó
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781681371535
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
4 / 5 (240 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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