{"product_id":"the-door","title":"The Door","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBy Magda Szabo\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIntroduction by Ali Smith\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by Len Rix\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review‘s\u003c\/em\u003e “10 Best Books of 2015”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Prix Femina Étranger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I remember the feeling I had only a few pages in: that this was a voice unlike any I’d ever read—elevated, almost cold, but bristling with passion beneath the surface—and that the book was very, very good.” —Emily Temple, \u003cem\u003eLit Hub’s\u003c\/em\u003e ’10 Best Translated Novels of the Decade’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ehe Door\u003c\/em\u003e, by Magda Szabo, is a Hungarian novel with the elemental force of a myth—the story of a middle-class writer and the servant who takes over her household and her life. Class dynamics, female friendship, the power of will—Szabo writes about them all with eerie fascination.” —Adam Kirsch, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A superbly controlled and involving work of art. . .One of Szabó’s triumphs is to have written a profound political novel that is rooted in the domestic.” —Liam McIlvanney, \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Door\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLen Rix’s prizewinning translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Door\u003c\/em\u003e at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNYRB Classics, 2015\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1987\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 x 8 x 0.5 inches \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9781590177716\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFiction \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39884044173480,"sku":"9781590177716","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/The-Door_Magda-Szabo_Ali-Smith_Len-Rix.jpg?v=1620765339","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-door","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}