The Door
$22.63
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
A ‘dark domestic fairytale’ by Hungary’s most important twentieth-century writer.
Nothing is more mysterious than another human soul.
Magda is a writer, Emerence her housekeeper. Magda is new to their quiet Hungarian town, while Emerence, fierce and enigmatic, knows and is known by all. Though she enters Magda’s home whenever she pleases, the door to Emerence’s own strange abode remains barred. Still, somehow, over the course of twenty years, an intimate trust is built between…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529940190 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529940192 |
| Author: | Magda Szabó, Len Rix |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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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.
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