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&#769; here explores themes of love, loyalty, pride and privacy, and the barriers and secrets that govern them.

The Door

Literature & Fiction

Magda Szabó

Literary

Naxos and Blackstone Publishing

The Fawn (paperback)

Quercus Publishing, London

La porte (French Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

French and European Publications Inc

The Fawn (Chinese Edition)

Guangdong Flower City Publishing House

La ballata di Iza

Einaudi

Queen Iris is delighted when the all-knowing wondrous fig tree, which stands in the middle of Fairyland, gives her Lala on her coronation day. But Lala is no ordinary fairy child. He shows very little interest in the spells he learns in fairy school and prefers the company of humans, befriending a recently orphaned girl, Beata, and her uncle. The queen hopes her sons behavior will improve after she marries Amalfi, the captain of the palace guard, who already loves the prince as his own.Meanwhile the power-hungry Adderpater, wizard, scholar, and coregent of the land, identifies the cause of the princes strange behavior: Lala has a human heart. The punishment for having a human organ is cruel in Fairyland. Iris will do anything to save her son, even marry the ancient wizard and banish Gigi, the truth-telling unicorn. Will the lights of Fairyland go out forever? Or will Lalas human heart give him the courage to restore justice and happiness?

The Gift of the Wondrous Fig Tree

Europa Konyvkiado

Abigél

Móra könyvkiadó

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