When the World's Most Famous Writer Visits a Hotbed of Amoro

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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