![]() The teachers-handsome Péter Kalmár, sentimental König, good-hearted Susanna-are a strong supporting troupe. In desperation, she turns to Abigail, a mysterious statue that grants students’ wishes. Gina resolves to escape, but then her father tells her Germany is going to win the war, and Gina can’t return home. After Gina reveals to her teachers a strange, secret school tradition and ruins it, her classmates, all wonderfully rendered, ignore her. ![]() Gina is forced to cut her hair, give away her possessions, and conceal her draconian life at school from her father. ![]() It is 1943 in Hungary and Gina’s father, a general, sends her to the Matula Institute, a secluded, Calvinist boarding school for girls. ![]() Gina Vitay, the headstrong, spoiled lead, is reminiscent of Jane Austen’s Emma. This infectious coming-of-age novel from Szabó (1917–2007), released in 1970 and translated into English for the first time, is a rollicking delight. ![]()
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