Abigail Av Magda Szabo

Døren er en roman der leseren rives med fra første side. Den er et fascinerende portrett av to kvinner - historiens forteller, en forfatter, og den eldre uforglemmelige hushjelpen Emerenc, som har jobbet for henne i nærmere tjue år. Den ene lever...

When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life's companion and a mother trying to get close to...

<p>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...

By Hungary's most celebrated woman writer, a novel about how little we understand ourselves, let alone others, and in consequence how easily we fail, or even betray, those we love.