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The door / Magda Szabo ; [translated by] Len Rix ; [introduction by] Ali Smith.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Hungarian Series: New York Review Books classicsPublisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2007]Description: ix, 262 pages ; 21 cm. pbkContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781590177716Subject(s): Women -- Hungary -- Fiction | Hungary -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction.DDC classification: FIC SZA 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Fiction pbk | Shelburne Public Library | Fiction | FIC SZA | Available | 41577956 |
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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