Bøger af Magda Szabo

En uforglemmelig klassiker første gang på dansk Med forord af Ali Smith ”Døren” er en fascinerende roman om venskabet mellem to meget forskellige kvinder. Magda er forfatter, ung, veluddannet og gift med en akademiker. Emerance er fra landet, analfabet, karakterfast og tilsyneladende uden alder. Hun bor alene i et hus, hvor ingen må træde over dørtærsklen, ikke engang hendes nærmeste bekendte. Emerance bliver Magdas husholderske, og langsomt overtager hun kontrollen med hele husholdningen. Som tiden går, bliver Magda mere og mere optaget af Emerance, der er kendt i hele kvarteret, men hvis fortid er skjult for alle, også for Magda. Og Emerance knytter sig også på sin vis til den unge forfatter, selvom hun jævnligt irettesætter hende for hendes ”bohemeagtige” livsførelse. Men da Magda efter mange år i skyggen af det kommunistiske styre endelig får succes, træffer hun et valg, der får fatale konsekvenser for Emerance og forholdet mellem de to kvinder. ”Døren” er skrevet i 1987 og er ungarske Magda Szabós hovedværk.

Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper.

A cult coming-of-age novel by the multi-award winning author of THE DOOR and KATALIN STREET.

"In The Door, in Iza's Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabâo describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of The Fawn, may well be Szabâo's most fascinating creation. Eszter, an only child, her father an eccentric aristocrat and steeply downwardly mobile flower breeder, her mother a harried music teacher failing to make ends meet, grows up poor and painfully aware of it in a provincial Hungarian town. This is before World War II, and Eszter, as she tells her story of childhood loneliness and hunger, has forgotten no slight and forgiven nobody, least of all her beautiful classmate Angela, whose unforced kindness to her left the deepest wound. And yet Eszter, post-war-which is when she has come to remember all these things-is a star of the stage, now settled in Budapest, where Angela, a devout Communist married to an esteemed scholar and translator of Shakespeare, also lives. The Fawn unfolds as Eszter's confession, filled with the rage of a lifetime and born, we come to sense, of irreversible regret. It is a tale of childhood, of the theater, of the collateral damage of the riven twentieth century, of hatred, and, in the end, a tragic tale of love"--

Fourteen-year-old Gina, the spoiled daughter of a Hungarian general, rails against being sent to boarding school far from Budapest when war breaks out, but finds help in a statue of Abigail and her new "sisters."

The Door, a riveting novel by Magda Szabo, is a must-read for all literature enthusiasts. Published by the New York Review of Books in 2015, this book has since been a sensation in the literary world. The Door falls under the genre of contemporary literature, a genre that Szabo has masterfully woven her narrative into. The story is a profound exploration of the bond between two very different women, their struggles, and the door that represents a barrier and a bridge to their understanding. Magda Szabo, with her eloquent writing style, brings to life the characters and their emotional journey. This book is not just a story, but an experience that will leave you contemplating long after you've turned the last page. Published by the New York Review of Books, it is a testament to their commitment to bringing quality literature to readers worldwide.

In pre-war Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Baalint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Iraen Elekes, the headmaster's dutiful elder daughter, over her younger sister, the scatterbrained Blanka, and little Henriette Held, the daughter of the Jewish dentist. Their lives are torn apart in 1944 by the German occupation, which only the Elekes family survives intact. The postwar regime relocates them to a cramped Soviet-style apartment and they struggle to come to terms with social and political change, personal loss, and unstated feelings of guilt over the deportation of the Held parents and the death of little Henriette, who had been left in their protection. But the girl survives in a miasmal afterlife, and reappears at key moments as a mute witness to the inescapable power of past events."--

"When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter, Iza, insists that she give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life. Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life's companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known. It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over a lifetime. Beautifully translated by the poet George Szirtes, this is a profoundly moving novel with the unforgettable power of Magda Szabo's award-winning The Door"--

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 a daughter whom she has never truly known.