The Door
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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"
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Published by Faberge , 4 years ago
This is an interesting book set in Budapest which painfully creates characters in conflict over their cultural and social positions in life.
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