The Door
by Magda Szabo (Hungarian)
1995 / 260 pages
rating 9.5  /20th cent. lit

What an amazing book!   This is the first I’ve heard of this Magda Szabo and this work seems to have got some attention in the US and was made into a movie released in 2012 although Szabo, a leading Hungarian author,  died in 2007. It’s probably important to remember that the book was first published in Hungary 2 years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.  It can certainly be seen as protest literature of a sort – >>>>MORE>>>>