← Magda SzaboKatalin Streetby Magda SzaboHistorical novel tracing four families during Hungarian WWII turmoil and devastationFind on Amazon↗About the authorMagda SzaboHungarian novelist whose fiction portrays Hungarian intellectual and bourgeois life with psychological acuity and narrative sophistication. The Door is her masterpiece, a haunting study of the relationship between a writer and her housekeeper.More by Magda SzaboThe DoorHungarian woman's complex relationship with her housemaid across decades→AbigailMoral inquiry into class, education, and feminine identity in Hungarian society→The FawnPsychological portrait of female adolescence and awakening to mortality→Iza's Ballad→