The Door (pocket)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Ungerska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2020-09-03
Förlag
Vintage Classics
Översättare
Len Rix
Originalspråk
Hungarian
Dimensioner
22 x 176 x 114 mm
Vikt
225 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
A-format paperback
ISBN
9781784876401

The Door

av Magda Szab
Häftad,  Ungerska, 2020-09-03
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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 Magdas friendship and change the complexion of both their lives irreversibly. Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.
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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 * Szab 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 Hungarys 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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Magda Szab was born in 1917 in Debrecen, Hungary. She began her literary career as a poet. In the 1950s she was silenced and 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 went on to win many literary awards, including the Attila Jzsef Prize in 1959 and 1972, and the Kossuth Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Hungary, in 1978. Szabs novel, The Door, was originally published in Hungary in 1987, and Len Rixs translation has gone on to win the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Magda Szab died in 2007.

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