Die Elemente

Leave this woman!" - This is what a night voice whispers in the ear of the man he loves above all else. Iza is his great love. But he listens to the nocturnal instinct and leaves. And everyone asks: 'Why? What had happened?'
Answer gives life. - Her father dies. Rough he was, loving and just! Iza takes her mother to her Budapest big city life. And then it happens. Habits are dissolved. Memories come up. Facts push them back into the depths. Truths set to work. Until disaster strikes: the mother's instinctive exit from life, a final act of love. An unheard warning to the daughter Iza. Does she have ears to hear? The floods subside, leaving Iza behind: once loved by many, she is now alone. Something has spoken to her: pure, stern, against the cold logic called self-deception.
A novel that mercilessly gets to the bottom of the conditions of love. Through the stream of time flows Magda Szabó's language: the Hungary of the 60s, its people, their fate - an eternal monument of our weaknesses, kind and serious, clear-sightedly turned towards life.
Question: 'Why do you write?' Answer: 'Ask a bird why it sings!' Magda Szabó.