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Review: Tan Twan Eng s new novel summons the spirit of Somerset Maugham

Somerset Maugham's short story “The Letter” serves as the linchpin of Tran Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors,” which was selected for the 2023 Booker Prize long list.

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Somerset Maugham s Asian tales of alcohol and adultery won him fame – and enraged his expat friends

The doorman in the white short-sleeved shirt and shorts, white knee-length socks and pith helmet smiles, presses his palm to his heart and pushes the heavy wooden doors open for me. The lobby of the Eastern & Oriental Hotel is an icy, blessed sanctuary from the heat beating down on the streets outside, and I feel myself cooling down immediately. I am in Penang, off the north-west coast of Malaysia, to launch my new novel, The House of Doors, at a refurbished 1930s cinema in the heart of George T

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Somerset Maugham s Asian tales of alcohol and adultery won him fame – and enraged his expat friends

His books entrenched the picture of English men and women in the colonies as snobbish, petty and prone to scandal

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The Letter, with Bette Davis: A Taut and Insinuating Melodrama [Movie Review]

The Letter, with Bette Davis: A Taut and Insinuating Melodrama [Movie Review]
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When the World s Most Famous Writer Visits a Hotbed of Amorous Intrigue

James Wood reviews “The House of Doors,” by Tan Twan Eng, which reimagines W. Somerset Maugham’s adventures in Malaysia and conjures a new set of secrets behind a classic story.

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