The Door By Magda Szabó

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Title	:	The Door
Author	:	Magda Szabó
ISBN	:	1590177711
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	262

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One of The New York Times Book Review s 10 Best Books of 2015 An NYRB Classics Original 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, impassive, ab One of The New York Times Book Review s 10 Best Books of 2015 An NYRB Classics Original The Door is...

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Arrival and Departure By Arthur Koestler

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Title	:	Arrival and Departure
Author	:	Arthur Koestler
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	190

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Alternate cover for ISBN 0140181199 ISBN13 9780140181197 Spring 1941 Peter Slavek, a student hero who has survived interrogation by torture, has escaped from an oppressive dictatorship He arrives in Neutralia, a tense clearing house for refugees en route for uneasy peace or total war.Among them are Odette, a beautiful child widow Bernard, an epicene Fascist proselyt Alternate cover for ISBN 0140181199 ISBN13 9780140181197 Spring 1941 Peter Slavek, a student hero who has survived interr...

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The Door By Magda Szabó

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Title	:	The Door
Author	:	Magda Szabó
ISBN	:	0099470284
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	262

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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 crossed her threshold Only a great drama in the writer s life prompts Emerence A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper.From their first encounter it is...

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Prae By Miklós Szentkuthy

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Title	:	Prae
Author	:	Miklós Szentkuthy
ISBN	:	1940625084
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	788

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Considered an eerie attack on realism, when first published in 1934, Mikl s Szentkuthy s debut novel Prae so astonished Hungarian critics that many deemed it monstrous, derogatorily referred to Szentkuthy as cosmopolitan, and classified him alien to Hungarian culture.Incomparable and unprecedented in Hungarian literature, Prae compels recognition as a serious contribution Considered an eerie attack on realism, when first published in 1934, Mikl s Szentkuthy s debut novel Prae so astonished Hungarian criti...

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They Were Counted By Miklós Bánffy

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Title	:	They Were Counted
Author	:	Miklós Bánffy
ISBN	:	190085015X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	624

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Painting an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre 1914 Hungary, this story is told through the eyes of two young Transylvanian cousins, Count Balint Ab dy and Count L szl Gyeroffy Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament, and the luxury of life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping, prescient novel, forming a chilli Painting an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre 1914 Hungary, this story is told through the eyes of two young Transylvania...

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