Tan Twan Eng Collection 3 Books Set (The Gift of Rain, The Garden of Evening Mists & The House of Doors)

Literature & Fiction

Tan Twan Eng

Short Stories & Anthologies

Canongate Books Ltd.

The House of Doors

<p>From the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.\nThe 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.\nMaugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is 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.\nA 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.</p>

The House of Doors: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023

Genre Fiction

Canongate

Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. The enigmatic Endo is bound by disciplines of his own and when the Japanese invade Malaya, threatening to destroy Philip s family and everything he loves, he realises that his trusted sensei to whom he owes absolute loyalty has been harbouring a devastating secret. Philip must risk everything in an attempt to save those he has placed in mortal danger and discover who and what he really is. With masterful and gorgeous narrative, replete with exotic and captivating images, sounds and aromas of rain swept beaches, magical mountain temples, pungent spice warehouses, opulent colonial ballrooms and fetid and forbidding rainforests Tan Twan Eng weaves a haunting and unforgettable story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage and enduring love.

The Gift of Rain

Literary

Myrmidon Books Ltd

<p>Penang, 1939, sixteen-year-old philip hutton is a loner half english, half chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with hayato endo, a japanese diplomat philip shows his new friend around his adored island of penang, and in return endo trains him in the art and discipline of aikido but such knowledge comes at a terrible price the enigmatic endo is bound by disciplines of his own and when the japanese invade malaya, threatening to destroy philips family and everything he loves, he realises that his trusted sensei - to whom he owes absolute loyalty - has been harbouring a devastating secret philip must risk everything in an attempt to save those he has placed in mortal danger and discover who and what he really is with masterful and gorgeous narrative, replete with exotic and captivating images, sounds and aromas - of rain swept beaches, magical mountain temples, pungent spice warehouses, opulent colonial ballrooms and fetid and forbidding rainforests - tan twan eng weaves a haunting and unforgettable story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage and enduring love</p>

The Gift Of Rain

Myrmidon

Der Garten der Abendnebel

Droemer

Tan Twan Eng 3 Books Collection Set (The Gift of Rain, The Garden of Evening Mists & [Hardcover] The House of Doors)

Bloomsbury Publishing/Myrmidon Books Ltd

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