Unsettling exploration of women's lives and relationships for thought-provoking reading
Award-winning translation by Len Rix enhances accessibility and literary quality
Focus on the complex bond between a writer and her housekeeper offers unique insight into human connection
Publication as an NYRB Classics original expands the canon of modern European literature
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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" 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, im
