This book is by the Hungarian writer Magda Szabo. I read and reviewed her novel The Door last year and it was one of the best books I read that year and any year. This book is twenty or so years older than that and one is quite different because of this. She was about 50 when this book was published and 70 when The Door was, and so age certainly had some role in the differences, but not the only differences, or even the primary […]