by Magda Szabó · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483466520
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«La puerta» is the novel by Hungarian writer Magda Szabó, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
The writer Magda Szabó reconstructs her long relationship with Emerenc, her enigmatic housekeeper: a severe and generous woman, hardened by poverty and by the political violence of the twentieth century. Emerenc accepts nothing in return and guards her privacy firmly; the narrator will be the only one invited to cross her threshold and discover her secret.
Translation from Hungarian by Márta Komlósi; original «Az ajtó» (1987). 2008 edition in the Contemporánea collection from Debolsillo.
For readers of literary fiction interested in friendship and twentieth-century Hungary; a work commonly used in reading groups.
Magda Szabó was a Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the Digital Literary Academy, an online digital repository of Hungarian literature. She is the most translated Hungarian author, with publications in 42 countries and over 30 languages.
