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The House of Doors
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1639734678
ISBN-13
9781639734672
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12064040289
Product Key Features
Book Title
House of Doors
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
" The House of Doors will draw you into its mesh of secrets and subterfuge." -- The New York TImes "[Tan] can write with lyrical generosity and beautiful tact . . . lovely, drifting, dreamlike . . . Exquisite." -- The New Yorker "Entrancing . . . lushly atmospheric . . . There's much to untangle and savor in this exquisite novel . . . Tan has pulled off not just a captivating novel, but an ingenious twist that explores how literature works its magic." -- NPR "Captivating . . . exquisite. . . I'll remember The House of Doors for its smart cross-cultural excursions and its indelible images." -- Wall Street Journal "The book's elaborate structure is itself a house of many doors, a metaphor for the hidden truths within . . . Eng employs masterful control, and we follow his thread to a satisfying ending." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "A magnetic tale of love, betrayal, and colonialism." -- Entertainment Weekly "[This] exquisitely atmospheric novel has the high gloss of a 1940s Hollywood melodrama . . . Out of these characters' stifled yearnings and rare moments of transcendence, Tan has made a ravishingly romantic novel." -- Slate "Tan effortlessly fuses fiction and fact as he paints a portrait of Maugham's trip to Malaysia, his desperate search for a new writing subject, colonialism, and the restraints of heteronormative marriage." -- Time "Based on actual events, [ The House of Doors ] plumbs timeless issues of race, gender, and sexuality . . . Sublime, elegant prose from the mind of a gifted storyteller." -- Toronto Star "Tan Twan Eng spins a tale of colonial scandal and intrigue in The House of Doors . . . solid, well-crafted . . . engrossing." -- The Boston Globe "Brilliant." -- The Washington Post " The House of Doors is brilliantly observed and full of memorable characters. It is so well-written, everything so effortlessly dramatized, the narrative so well structured and paced, that this is a book that will mesmerize readers far into the future." -- Colm Tóibín, author of THE MAGICIAN "This is historical fiction at its best. . . The House of Doors is immersive, transporting, and exquisitely crafted." -- Cristina Henríquez, author of THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS "An amazingly transporting novel about love, desire, and duty, The House of Doors does what the very best stories do - it draws us into many fascinating worlds at once: The British Empire's incursions into South-East Asia; the secret life of one of England's finest writers; a forgotten murder trial playing out in the Kuala Lumpur courts a century ago. Weaving all this together with great skill and power, bringing the reader a surfeit of pleasure, Tan Twan Eng also teaches us a crucial lesson: never trust a writer." -- Jonathan Lee, author of THE GREAT MISTAKE and HIGH DIVE, " The House of Doors is brilliantly observed and full of memorable characters. It is so well-written, everything so effortlessly dramatized, the narrative so well structured and paced, that this is a book that will mesmerize readers far into the future." -- Colm Tóibín, author of THE MAGICIAN "This is historical fiction at its best. . . The House of Doors is immersive, transporting, and exquisitely crafted." -- Cristina Henríquez, author of THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS "Exquisite . . . Tan takes on a behemoth task here: combining sensational fact and intimate fiction . . . [He] succeeds in delivering another intricate literary gift." -- Booklist, Starred Review
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Dewey Edition
23/eng/20231004
Dewey Decimal
823/.92
Synopsis
The "masterful" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) Booker longlisted novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption., LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER , NPR, SLATE, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK The "masterful" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) Booker longlisted novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption. The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings-and the freedom to travel with Gerald. His career deflating, his health failing, Maugham arrives at Cassowary House in desperate need of a subject for his next book. Lesley, too, is enduring a marriage more duplicitous than it first appears. Maugham suspects an affair, and, learning of Lesley's past connection to the Chinese revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, decides to probe deeper. But as their friendship grows and Lesley confides in him about life in the Straits, Maugham discovers a far more surprising tale than he imagined, one that involves not only war and scandal but the trial of an Englishwoman charged with murder. It is, to Maugham, a story worthy of fiction. A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, The House of Doors traces the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and power under empire, and dives deep into the complicated nature of love and friendship in its shadow.
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