Abigail (novel)

Abigail
AuthorMagda Szabó
LanguageHungarian
Publication date
January 1, 1970

Abigail (Hungarian: Abigél) is a 1970 young adult novel by the Hungarian author Magda Szabó. Abigail is an adventure story about a teenage girl who attends a Calvinist girls' school in eastern Hungary during World War II.

In the Hungarian Big Read in 2005, it was voted the sixth most popular novel in Hungary. It was the third most popular Hungarian novel on the list. The novel has been translated into Catalan, Czech, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. An English translation by Len Rix was published in January 2020. A Hungarian audiobook is read by Ildikó Piros (who played Sister Susanna in a television adaptation of the novel), and an English audiobook is read by Samantha Desz.

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