Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift
of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has
been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man
Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for
Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
The House of Doors is his third novel.
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'Outstanding . . . The House of Doors again displays [Eng's] talent
for atmospheric evocation of place and period . . . Beautifully
detailed and encompassing the vagaries of Maugham's life, the
contours of his creativity and the personal and political tensions
covertly quivering through the sultry colony around him, The House
of Doors is a finely accomplished piece of work' - SUNDAY TIMES
'A tremendous feat of literary imagination. Highly evocative,
richly observed and entirely convincing, it is a tour de force!' -
WILLIAM BOYD
'Expertly constructed, tightly plotted and richly atmospheric' -
FINANCIAL TIMES
'A pleasure to read . . . Tan's style is formal, quiet, sedate but
alive with detail' - JOHN SELF
'Perfectly poised . . . a fascinatingly layered novel . . . Through
this deceptively lulling atmosphere, Twan has woven a superb,
quietly complex tale of love, duty and betrayal' - LITERARY REVIEW
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