The Door - Magda Szabo

Hungarian novel from during the communist period.  The story of the relationship between a woman writer working in the context of the regime, and her housekeeper, an older woman from a peasant background.  A bit too slow and interior oriented for me, but I still got through it.  It is partly about the conflict between urban and older, traditional peasant culture.  There could also be an implied critique of the shift in values during the communist period, compared to the earlier rural peasant values - or at least an exploration of the stark difference between these two sets of values.