Iza's Ballad

Name: Iza's Ballad
Author: Magda Szabo

About the author

Hungarian novelist whose fiction portrays Hungarian intellectual and bourgeois life with psychological acuity and narrative sophistication. The Door is her masterpiece, a haunting study of the relationship between a writer and her housekeeper.

More by Magda Szabo

The DoorHungarian woman's complex relationship with her housemaid across decades
AbigailMoral inquiry into class, education, and feminine identity in Hungarian society
The FawnPsychological portrait of female adolescence and awakening to mortality
Katalin StreetHistorical novel tracing four families during Hungarian WWII turmoil and devastation