The door
By: Magda Szabó ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix ; introduction by Ali Smith
Contributors: Rix, L. B. (Len B.), translator; Smith, Ali, 1962- writer of introduction
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781590177716
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Politics and government; Housekeepers; Women; Fiction; Family secrets
Work titles: Ajtó
Description: "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 with 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"--