![]() ![]() The Door was the NYRB Classics Book Club selection for January 2015.ĭownload the Reading Group Guide for The Door.īy Magda Szabo, introduction by Ali Smith, a new translation from the Hungarian by Len Rix 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. They share a kind of love-at least until Magda’s long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. ![]() She is Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" ![]()
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