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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NYRB Classics Original The 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 Hungary’s 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 Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love—at least until Magda’s long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix’s prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer.

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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NYRB Classics Original The 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 Hungary's 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 Magda's housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda's household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love--at least until Magda's long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix's prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer.

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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. Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.

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Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - 'The Second of September 1792' is a fine example - and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist.

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The CIA's first Black officer uses his training in organizing a ghetto army to destroy white America

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At the beginning of a new writing project—whether it’s the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is “like someone you don’t know knocking on your door—you either choose to let the person in or not. It’s both exciting and dangerous to start a new manuscript.” This book is an engagement with that “stranger” called writing. Creative or imaginative writing is a complex process that involves more than intellect alone. Writers make use of everything: their sensibilities, history, culture, knowledge, experience, education, and even their biology. These essays seek out, and gather into a discussion, what writers have said about their own experiences in writing. Although the writers are from around the world and of very different backgrounds, the commonality of their remarks brings home the realization that writers everywhere are grappling with similar problems—with the seemingly simple problems of when, where, why, and what to write, but also larger questions such as the relationship between writer and society, or issues of privacy, appropriation, or homelessness. While none of these questions can be definitively answered, they can be fruitfully discussed. Originating as questions posed in creative-writing seminars, these essays have grown into companion texts for both writers and readers who want to participate in a conversation about what writers do.

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Krittika comes to Dubai from Delhi after her father’s demise. On his deathbed her father reveals the existence of the family he had escaped from years ago. A family she hadn’t even known existed. The Rathods. On her arrival she finds herself in a set up and way of life that is completely alien. For one the entire clan lives together. Her three uncles, her two aunts. Their husbands, wives and children. They work together. In the family business. And they are wealthy. Powerful. But the most shocking revelation of all is that she is a wealthy heiress. Her grandfather left the bulk of his fortune to her father and she has inherited it on his death. Accustomed to her father’s frequent changes of job and their lack of financial stability, Krittika doesn’t know whether to be glad or sorry to learn that she need never worry about finances again. And the large beautiful white house by the sea seems perfect. Only it isn’t. There’s a snake in Eden. Something murky beneath the bright and gay surface of her new family. For who is the stranger she meets on the beach? A man named Kapil Singh who tells her he is her family’s arch enemy. A man who looks at her with such hatred though it’s their first meeting? “You are a Rathod.” He tells her angrily. And slowly Krittika begins to understand what it means to be a Rathod. The focus, the commitment, the loyalty. And slowly she begins to bond with her cousins. Then in an unexpected twist Krittika finds herself alone once more. Someone tries to push her off the terrace of a hotel and kill her. Kapil Singh comes to her rescue. Krittika finds herself plagued by ugly suspicions. Who is trying to kill her? Why? Will Krittika manage to evade the murderer? Will she find the truth? Or die in the attempt? And if she does will she manage to tell Kapil how she really feels about him?

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