Katalin Street - WINNER of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF NYTBR''S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015

** WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE **

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019 **

"Extraordinary" New York Times

"Quite unforgettable" Daily Telegraph

"Unusual, piercing . . . oddly percipient" Irish Times

"A gorgeous elegy" Publishers Weekly

"A brightly shining star in the Szabo universe" World Literature Today

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 B-nt, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Ir-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