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The door / Magda Szabó ; introduction by Ali Smith.

By:

Szabó, Magda 1917 - 2007

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: New York Review Books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Book Review , 2005Description: 262 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9781590177716

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Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction

DDC classification:

FIC SZA

LOC classification:

PH3351.S592 A7413 2015

Summary: 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.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC SZA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015968

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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.

Translated from the Hungarian to English.

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