Katalin Street: WINNER of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize (Paperback)

[U]nusual, piercing, and - given Hungary's current political climate - oddly percipient -- Catherine Taylor * Irish Times *
In Katalin Street, the past is never dormant, never settled. The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present. In describing Henriette's plight, Szabo writes: 'From the moment she arrived she had been left to work out the rules and the customs of the place entirely by herself.' In this extraordinary novel, the same could be said for the living. -- Laura van den Berg * New York Times Book Review *
This is a love story and a ghost story . . . From the height of war through to Stalinism, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its 1968 reprise, Szabo moves us across the decades. -- Katherine Waters * The Arts Desk *

The book depicts humanity at its rawest and saddest. As a
reminder of the impact of war on humans who survive it, Katalin Street is stark, and at times harrowing; Szabo asks us to bear
witness to a punishing postwar regime through a locally trained lens and the troubled, intimate lives of its inhabitants

-- Laura Waddell * The Skinny *
A gorgeous elegy for the joy and the life once shared among three neighboring families in prewar Budapest...This is a brilliant and unforgettable novel. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
Szabo's quietly captivating novel excavates the tangled history of Hungary's capital from the portentous moments before the German occupation to its suffocating postwar regime...A visceral, sweeping depiction of life in the shuddering wake of wartime. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *
[Katalin Street] is a brightly shining star in the Szabo universe, offering us a glimpse of Eastern Europe at a time when we need to be reminded of what happened there more than ever -- Andrew Martino * World Literature Today *
Katalin Street's effect on me was so extraordinary that at first I couldn't decide what was most extraordinary about it: its gentle unpeeling of the tragic lives of the characters, or its gentle unpeeling of tragic life in general . . . quite unforgettable -- Julian Evans * Daily Telegraph *
Her fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles . . . Szabo summons the cosy, closed world with a lyrical, quicksilver touch that makes the thuggish intrusions of despotic power all the more wrenching. * Economist *