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, carefully built. But Emerence has secrets and vulnerabilities beneath her indo...
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, carefully built. But Emerence has secrets and vulnerabilities beneath her indomitable exterior which will test Magda’s friendship and change the complexion of both their lives irreversibly.
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很久没有让我熬夜读的小说了,这次从家里翻来的买了很久的一本旧书,玛格达·萨博(Magda Szabó)的《门(The Door)》,是2005年Vintage的旧版本,不过标的人多就还是标这本NYRB Classics吧,网上也有搜到Ali Smith的导言,称其为: a study of survival tactics, of finding ...
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