Night of the Pig-Killing by Magda Szabo
Night of the Pig-Killing by Magda Szabo. Translated by Kathleen Szasz. 1966 Knopf, first U.S. edition, 224 pages. Szabo was a Hungarian writer who has experienced a renaissance with the NYRB reissue of her novel The Door. She won awards for her poetry in the forties, but one award was revoked when she was declared an enemy by the new communist government, and she didn't publish work for another ten years. Night of the Pig-Killing was published after this time.
Condition: Jacket VG, chips to spine and creasing, book VG
"Nice of him not to have said that the boy was stupid."
Night of the Pig-Killing by Magda Szabo. Translated by Kathleen Szasz. 1966 Knopf, first U.S. edition, 224 pages. Szabo was a Hungarian writer who has experienced a renaissance with the NYRB reissue of her novel The Door. She won awards for her poetry in the forties, but one award was revoked when she was declared an enemy by the new communist government, and she didn't publish work for another ten years. Night of the Pig-Killing was published after this time.
Condition: Jacket VG, chips to spine and creasing, book VG
"Nice of him not to have said that the boy was stupid."