The Door

By Magda Szabó

Book Overview

One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"

An NYRB Classics Original

The 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 European writer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590177711
• ISBN13: 9781590177716
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Very good

This is an interesting book set in Budapest which painfully creates characters in conflict over their cultural and social positions in life.