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The Door jackie this mesmerizing literary debut isThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public spirited, with an on again off again relationship to Hungarys Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magdas housekeeper and she has taken control over