This novel opens and closes with the narrator's dream that she is unable to allow paramedics to save a patient, paralleling her attempts to save her housekeeper.
A character in this novel responds to the Good Friday prohibition on plums by calling a god that would care about food "strange", and claiming that her god is over the bed of Mrs. Samuel Boor. At novel's opening, the narrator describes how "this book is not written for God" but rather for other people. This novel centers on a woman whose mother committed suicide after her twin siblings were killed by lightning. Its narrator believes that a woman stole all the furniture from a Jewish family before learning that she sheltered their baby Eva Grossman during the Holocaust. In this novel, a woman insists on naming a dog Viola even though the dog is male. This novel opens and closes with the narrator's dream that she is unable to allow paramedics to save a patient, paralleling her attempts to save her housekeeper. For 10 points, name this novel about the mysterious Emerence, written by Magda Szabo (SAH-boh).
A character in this novel responds to the Good Friday prohibition on plums by calling a god that would care about food "strange", and claiming that her god is over the bed of Mrs. Samuel Boor.
The Door [or Az ajtó]