The school is a hermetically sealed world with its own strict rules and regulations: Gina must cut her hair, give up her prized possessions, and exchange her clothes for a dated school uniform that demands conformity down to the underwear. It is 1943, and the protagonist, Gina Vitay, is a spoiled and headstrong teenager from Budapest, whose life is radically changed as her father, a general in the army, sends her to a secluded Calvinist boarding school for girls in eastern Hungary. This cult coming-of-age novel from Magda Szabó (1917–2007), first released in Hungary in 1970 and now translated into English for the first time, is imbued with humour, warmth, and a gripping plot.
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