by Magda Szabó · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806193225
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«La ballata di Iza» is the novel by Magda Szabó, published by Einaudi in paperback (304 pages, in Italian).
After being widowed, Etelka leaves her provincial town to move to Budapest with her daughter Iza, a successful doctor who organises her life and erases any trace of her past. Etelka fades into suffocating solitude; the narrative shows the distance between mother and daughter and the difficulty of understanding each other, against the backdrop of Hungarian history.
Originally published as «Pilátus» in 1963, this Italian edition has a translation by Bruno Ventavoli and belongs to Einaudi's Super ET collection.
For readers of literary fiction and stories about family relationships; it will also appeal to those who have enjoyed «La porta».
Magda Szabó was a Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the Digital Literary Academy, an online digital repository of Hungarian literature. She is the most translated Hungarian author, with publications in 42 countries and over 30 languages.
