The Door

One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"

An NYRB Classics Original

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 to 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 01/27/2015
ISBN: 9781590177716
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/24/2014
New York Times Book Review 02/08/2015 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 02/15/2015 pg. 26
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2015 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 12/13/2015 pg. 12
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001