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    The Door
    The Door
    The Door
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Door

    Written by Magda Szabó

    Narrated by Sian Thomas

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Intense, brilliant and moving.

    The Door is a compelling story about the relationship between two women of opposing backgrounds and personalities: one, an intellectual and writer; the other, her housekeeper, a mysterious, elderly woman who sets her own rules and abjures religion, education, pretense and any kind of authority.

    Beneath this hardened exterior of Emerence lies a painful story that must be concealed.

    One of Hungary’s best-known writers, Magda Szabo explores themes of love, loyalty, pride and privacy, and the barriers and secrets that govern them.

    ©1987 Magda Szabo´ Translation © 2005 Len Rix. (P)2016 Naxos AudioBooks

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781781980804
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    • 5/5
      Speechless! This is one of the most beautifully written books I have read in a long long time.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The narration is simply outstanding. The story is complex, moving, and wonderful!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A very affecting take of friendship with someone who appears to be awkward and difficult but is in fact a person of great quality. The friendship is unsentimental, combative and complex. Wonderful author and a tale of great depth.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Don’t be “Shmuel.” If you are anything like this reviewer “Shmuel,” you shouldn’t read this book, and you should feel very bad about yourself.

      “Two hours about a cleaning woman.” — Indeed. That is ALL. “A cleaning woman.” If that’s ALL you’re able to see, you’re not worth it. You fail. YOU. FAIL.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Poignant, intriguing, page-turning, wonderfully written! A book that forces you to reflect (without hammering you over the head) on how you could be a better person, the nature of community, the fragile quirkiness of being human. I just finished and want to start it again because I miss it!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book! The narrator was fabulous. I felt like I was in the book, every character could be felt. I totally recommend this!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      The story is captivating, keeps your interest and is great for listening to attentively or while doing other tasks. The narrator has a wonderful voice and captures emotion brilliantly.

      The translator deserves the utmost praise, too as the story was so richly relayed in English!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Impressive writing. A portrait of PTSD. Trauma in physical, emotional, familial, environmental realms. War, environmental disaster, broken families, poverty, hunger. Everyone has burden. Some are blessed with love.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      My very first glimpse into Hungarian literature. A book about a very complex relationship between 2 women. It is about social, cultural difference between 2 generations.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      My favourite part of the book was learning about Emerence’s childhood - the twins and the storm.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I haven't been so bored since I read Kundera. I know he is Czech and this book is Hungarian but they have the same monotonous mind numbing detail about nothing at all. I only read a quarter of the book but am writing a review anyway because otherwise there is a huge bias toward positive reviews, i.e. because people don't finish books they don't like. So far all that has happened is a very long description of a cleaning lady. Two hours!
    • 5/5
      Great story! Very much enjoyed this book and the two women's evolving relationship.
    • 3/5
      Quite unlikeable main characters in such a character driven novel makes it difficult to enjoy this book. Their interactions were frustrating and unrealistic, their constant bickering and terrible treatment of each other tiresome. I found this book overly long, slow and largely uninteresting. Character insights and background sprinkled throughout were interesting, though not enough to make the book overall enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      This is an excellent book, but the recording finishes in the middle of a sentence! I'm not sure how much is missed, I think it's right at the end, but it was really disappointing.
    • 5/5
      Thoroughly engaging book. I love stories that explore people and our complex relationships that lead us to question. This book touches on many things that we take for granted - our values, our image, love and devotion - and although it is set in Hungary, a place perhaps many readers will not be familiar with, it is immediately familiar even in its characters oddest quirks.