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The Door

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784876401

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 179mm x 25mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 218g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Door

Emerence is a domestic servant – strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, carefully built. But Emerence has secrets and vulnerabilities beneath her indomitable exterior which will test Magda’s friendship and change the complexion of both their lives irreversibly.

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  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784876401

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 179mm x 25mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 218g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Improbably, you lose your heart and head to [The Door], which somehow cuts to the quick of everything that matters and does so in a voice which is, at the same time, materially straightforward and intensely hypnotic

    Simon Schama, Financial Times

  • Szabó manages to conjure up as many cliffhangers as an Indiana Jones film. The Door is a triumph. Clever, moving, frightening, it deserves to be a bestseller

    Tibor Fischer, Daily Telegraph

  • One of Hungary’s most important twentieth-century writers

    New York Times

  • The Door is a deeply strange and equally affecting book, a dark domestic fairy tale about the relationship between a Hungarian writer, Magda, and her taciturn elderly housekeeper, Emerence

    New York Times

  • No brief summary can do justice to the intelligence and moral complexity of this novel. I picked it up without expectation. I read it with gathering intensity, and a swelling admiration. I finished it, and straightaway started to read it again. It is unusual, original and utterly compelling

    Scotsman

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About the Author

Magda Szabó

Magda Szabó was born in 1917 in Debrecen, Hungary. She began her literary career as a poet. In the 1950s she disappeared from the publishing scene for political reasons and made her living by teaching and translating from French and English. She began writing novels, and in 1978 was awarded the Kossuth Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Hungary. Magda Szabó died in 2007.

Magda Szabó

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