When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life's companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known.
A moving novel from the Hungarian author of "The Door". Set in the 1960s, it follows Iza, who moves her mother Ettie from the remote Hungarian countryside to city life in Budapest. But Ettie is perplexed by modern life. Translated by the prize-winning poet George Szirtes. Now in paperback.
