← Magda SzaboThe Fawnby Magda SzaboPsychological portrait of female adolescence and awakening to mortalityFind 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→Katalin StreetHistorical novel tracing four families during Hungarian WWII turmoil and devastation→Iza's Ballad→