{"product_id":"the-house-of-doors-9781639731930","title":"The House of Doors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the bestselling author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of Evening Mists\u003c\/i\u003e, a spellbinding novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eabout love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003estorytelling and redemption.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaugham, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Doors\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639731930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.57h x 6.37w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Man Booker Prize - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023 pg. 50\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tan Twan Eng","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43150374338741,"sku":"9781639731930","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6ff06521-6d96-4a51-8e3e-e77cb2de5a11.jpg?v=1696347010","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-house-of-doors-9781639731930","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}