Katalin Street

Magda Szabó · 1917–2007 · Hungary

Originally Katalin utca (Hungarian)

Why it matters

Three Budapest families, bound since childhood, are scattered by the war and reunited decades later, still haunted by a daughter lost in 1944. Szabó's quietly devastating novel of memory and irreparable loss.

At a glance

Shifting timelines and perspectives across decades, though prose remains clear.