Maiden's novel

In the summer of 1948, at the gynecologist Aladár Körner, a desperate woman appears with a silent young girl. Klara, who also lost her parents and siblings during the war, is sixteen years old, pathologically skinny, as if she doesn’t want to grow up. The man, who was the only one in his family to survive the emergency, soon realizes behind the girl’s speechlessness and adolescent rage the loneliness and amazing love that he, too, has to deal with every day. In a short time, a special friendship develops between Aladár and Klára, which is difficult for others to interpret. A friendship that transcends all social norms and helps these two people learn to live and love again after the unspeakable horrors of war. Can such a relationship remain in its original purity, or will history eventually collapse? Since the first publication of Zsuzsa F. Várkonyi's novel with striking beauty, it has been uninterruptedly popular among readers, and its film adaptation of Those Who Remained in 2019 has won worldwide acclaim.