The House of Doors

The House of Doors

Tan Twan Eng (Author)

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, NPR, SLATE, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding 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,
Detalles del producto
ASIN : B0BWMRVK24
Editorial : Bloomsbury Publishing; 1er edición (17 Octubre 2023)
Fecha de publicación : 17 Octubre 2023
Idioma : Inglés
Tamaño del archivo : 5370 KB
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Lector de pantalla: : Respaldados
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Notas adhesivas : En Kindle Scribe
Número de páginas : 320 páginas
Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº22,931 en Tienda Kindle (Ver el Top 100 en Tienda Kindle)
nº3 en Ficción Histórica LGBTQ+
nº10 en Ficción Histórica Asiática
nº101 en Gay y Lésbico
Opiniones de clientes: 4.5
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