Joe, Brock, & Luka all thoroughly enjoyed this strange and brilliant Hungarian novel. Originally published in 1987, it was not translated into English until 1995.

The Door is a tense domestic portrait of the relationship between a Hungarian writer and her housekeeper. “While it’s not strictly a thriller, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time,” says Luka. The narrative blossoms from the larger-than-life personality of Emerence, the steadfast and mysterious housekeeper. Emerence’s relationship to the protagonist is an emotional rollercoaster – devoted, dutiful, suspicious, utterly bizarre. At the centre of the mystery is the door to Emerence’s flat: closed to all, behind which her most potent secrets lay. As their relationship deepens, the writer is driven almost to total undoing by their growing dependence on one another. It all begins with the writer’s dark confession: that she has killed Emerence.