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Somerset Maugham's short story “The Letter” serves as the linchpin of Tran Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors,” which was selected for the 2023 Booker Prize long list.

Tan Twan Eng’s ‘The House Of Doors’ has been longlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize

The doorman in the white short-sleeved shirt and shorts, white knee-length socks and pith helmet smiles, presses his palm to his heart and pushes the heavy wooden doors open for me. The lobby of the Eastern & Oriental Hotel is an icy, blessed sanctuary from the heat beating down on the streets outside, and I feel myself cooling down immediately. I am in Penang, off the north-west coast of Malaysia, to launch my new novel, The House of Doors, at a refurbished 1930s cinema in the heart of Geo...

His books entrenched the picture of English men and women in the colonies as snobbish, petty and prone to scandal

Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng has earned worldwide acclaim for emotionally astute fiction and elegant prose that illuminate historical dramas little known to many American readers. Each of his three novels, including his new "The House of Doors," has earned a spot on the Booker Prize longlist.True

New work from Irina Karafilly, Kate Mosse, Christine Higdon and Tan Twan Eng

From the Boston Book Festival: Tan Twan Eng on Defiance and the Power of Stories | Arts | The Harvard Crimson

The writer uses author W. Somerset Maughan’s visit to Malaysia in the early 1920s to explore love, marriage, race and crime in British colonial society. 

The writer uses author W. Somerset Maughan’s visit to Malaysia in the early 1920s to explore love, marriage, race and crime in British colonial society. 

The writer uses author W. Somerset Maughan’s visit to Malaysia in the early 1920s to explore love, marriage, race and crime in British colonial society.