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The door

Title
The door / Magda Szabó ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix ; introduction by Ali Smith.
Author
Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007.
Publication
  • New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
  • ©2005

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Additional Authors
  • Rix, L. B. (Len B.)
  • Smith, Ali, 1962-
  • Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007.
Description
ix, 262 pages; 21 cm.
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"--
Series Statement
New York Review Books classics
Uniform Title
  • Ajtó. English
  • New York Review Books classics.
Alternative Title
Ajtó.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Fiction.
Call Number
JFD 16-278
ISBN
  • 9781590177716 (pbk.)
  • 1590177711 (pbk.)
LCCN
2014034376
OCLC
880370198
Author
Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007.
Title
The door / Magda Szabó ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix ; introduction by Ali Smith.
Publisher
New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2005
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New York Review Books classics
New York Review Books classics.
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Chronological Term
1945 - 1989
Added Author
Rix, L. B. (Len B.), translator.
Smith, Ali, 1962- writer of introduction.
Translation of (work): Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007. Ajtó.
Other Form:
Online version: Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007. Door New York : New York Review Books, 2015 9781590178010 (DLC) 2014039607
Research Call Number
JFD 16-278
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