{"product_id":"abigail","title":"Abigail","description":"\u003cp\u003eA teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf all her novels, Magda Szabó's \u003cem\u003eAbigail i\u003c\/em\u003es the most widely read in her native Hungary. Now, it appears for the first time in English, joining \u003cem\u003eKatalin Street\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Door \u003c\/em\u003ein a loose trilogy about the impact of war on those who have to live with the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is late 1943 and Hitler, exasperated by the slowness of his Hungarian ally to act on the \"Jewish question\" and alarmed by the weakness on his southern flank, is preparing to occupy the country. Foreseeing this, and concerned for his daughter's safety, a Budapest father decides to send her to a boarding school away from the capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lively, sophisticated, somewhat spoiled teenager, she is not impressed by the reasons she is given, and when the school turns out to be a fiercely Puritanical one in a provincial city a long way from home, she rebels outright. Her superior attitude offends her new classmates and things quickly turn sour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the start of a long and bitter learning curve that will open her eyes to her arrogant blindness to other people's true motives and feelings. Exposed for the first time to the realities of life for those less privileged than herself, and increasingly confronted by evidence of the more sinister purposes of the war, she learns lessons about the nature of loyalty, courage, sacrifice and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Hungarian by Len Rix.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Magda Szabo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45139500302383,"sku":"9780857058492","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780857058492.jpg?v=1774530518","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/abigail","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}