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019 _a1380652364
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020 _a9781639731930
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035 _a(OCoLC)1355038825
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037 _bSt Martins Pr, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy Us Hwy 15, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (212)6745151
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100 1 _aTan, Twan Eng,
_d1972-
_eauthor.
_9121701
245 1 4 _aThe house of doors :
_ba novel /
_cTan Twan Eng.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a306 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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500 _a"First published in 2023 in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd. First published in the United States in 2023" -- Title page verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _aThe 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.
600 1 0 _aMaugham, W. Somerset
_q(William Somerset),
_d1874-1965
_vFiction.
650 0 _aTriangles (Interpersonal relations)
_vFiction.
_948273
650 0 _aFriendship
_vFiction.
650 0 _aSecrecy
_vFiction.
650 0 _aGay men
_vFiction.
_934858
650 0 _aMarried people
_vFiction.
_952608
651 0 _aMalaya
_xHistory
_yBritish rule, 1867-1942
_vFiction.
651 0 _aPulau Pinang (Malaysia : State)
_vFiction.
600 1 0 _aProudlock, Ethel
_xTrials, litigation, etc.
_vFiction.
651 0 _aPinang Island (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)
_vFiction.
655 7 _aGay fiction.
_2lcgft
_9193612
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
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_9683
655 7 _aBiographical fiction.
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_9682
655 7 _aNovels.
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_92408
655 0 _aLGBTQ+.
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