"I didn't like my own secrets. I liked other people's even less." Writen in 1987, this novel charting the relationship between a successful writer and her housekeeper, Emerence, perhaps draws many parallels with Szabó's own life, after her rehabilitation by the...
After her husband's death, Effie finds herself uprooted from her home and her previous existence, with barely any say in the matter, in order to live with her daughter Iza in Iza's modern apartment in Budapest. Overwhelmed by grief and bewildered by the move to a...