Tag: The Door

October 19, 2019

The Door by Magda Szabó — book review

“[I]t was as if Emerence turned on her ghostly heel and put two fingers up at our guilty consciences, and our attempts to approach her. Each time it was as if yet another undisclosed facet of her million secrets glittered before us” One of the most obscurely bizarre books I’ve ever read. Moving between the…
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