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Abigail by Magda Szabo
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A cult coming-of-age novel by the author of THE DOOR and KATALIN STREET. Magda Szabo's Abigail is the most widely read of all her novels in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after its original publication, it appears in English for the first time. Gina, the only child of a widowed general, lives a co ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo Len Rix (Translator); Ali Smith (Introduction by)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, ca ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid. Although everyone in the neighbourhood knows and respects her, no one knows anything about her private life or has ever cros ...Show more
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