Budapest, 1956. The Russians are invading and there are reports of massacres in surrounding towns. Magda, 23, flees with the other teachers and children across the border into Austria. She eventually marries a conventional middle-class doctor yet becomes filled with a sense of slowly exploding desperation, resulting in her incarciration in Steinhof mental hospital...'Memorable and highly original...about a woman's identity and - brilliantly described - her strange road to recovery' - Joan Smith

Translated by: Irene Scobbie