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The Door (Az ajtó) by Magda Szabó, Len Rix (translation), Ali Smith (introduction) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"'The Door,' by Magda Szabo, is a Hungarian novel with the elemental force of a myth—the story of a middle-class writer & the servant who takes over her household & her life. Class dynamics, female friendship, the power of will—Szabo writes about them all with eerie fascination. — Adam Kirsch, NY Times Book ReviewThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love—at least until Magda’s long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation.Len Rix’s prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern Europe

Who reads The Door (Az ajtó)?

Author

Magda Szabó, Len Rix (translation), Ali Smith (introduction)

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590178010

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political Science