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Jan 7, 2025 | 
bookbrowse.com | Tan Twan Eng
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JoreneJ
A Chinese-Malaysian woman looks back on a life both brutal and beautiful
I am surprised that no one has reviewed this book yet.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
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Anthony Conty
Historical Fiction for Newbies
“The House of Doors” by Tan Twan Eng tells interconnected tales about characters within the same realm. A married couple, Lesley and Robert, allow a famous writer and his assistant to live with them in a time of personal trouble. Secrets about their marriage arise, and drama they did not expect arises. Malaysia serves as the backdrop.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
dearstrangethings.substack.com | Tan Twan Eng |Alice McDermott |Gina Dalfonzo
Tears of Gold: Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women by Hannah Rose Thomas (Plough Publishing, 2024). Tears of Gold is a gut punch of a book, a riveting record in pictures and words of women who have survived horrors worse than most of us could imagine. British artist and activist Hannah Rose Thomas was inspired to create the book while working with women and children who had been through captivity by terrorist groups or fled from ethnic cleansing.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Tan Twan Eng
Somerset Maugham: ‘I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took’ Credit: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo 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.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
sg.style.yahoo.com | Tan Twan Eng
Somerset Maugham: ‘I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took’ - Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock PhotoThe 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.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
sports.yahoo.com | Tan Twan Eng
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, , at a refurbished 1930s cinema in the heart of George Town.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
kmuw.org | Beth Golay |Tan Twan Eng |Bram Stoker |Kenneth Cadow
Every November since 2013, NPR has published a list of book recommendations from NPR staff and trusted critics, including interview and review coverage from KMUW's own Beth Golay and Suzanne Perez. Formerly known as Book Concierge, the list is now called Books We Love, and Beth and Suzanne recently spoke with NPR's Andrew Limbong about this year's list. Books (and whatnot) discussed in this episode:The House of Doorsby Tan Twan EngThe Letter by W.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
csmonitor.com | Amanda Peters |Teju Cole |Paul Vidich |Tan Twan Eng
1 The Berry Pickersby Amanda PetersAfter their youngest daughter, Ruthie, vanishes during a summer of berry-picking in Maine, a Micmac family from Nova Scotia struggles to move forward. Indigenous Voices Award winner Amanda Peters delivers an un-put-down-able novel of identity, forgiveness, and insistent hope. 2 Tremorby Teju ColeTunde, a Nigerian professor living in the United States, grounds Teju Cole’s novel of ideas, moods, views, and questions.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
insideottawavalley.com | Tan Twan Eng |Christine Higdon |Irena Karafilly |Kate Mosse
The House of DoorsBy Tan Twan EngBloomsbury, 320 pages, $38.99 Intermingling fact and fiction with the aplomb of Somerset Maugham himself, Eng bookends this post-WWI narrative with reminiscences from protagonist Lesley Hamlyn from her rural home in 1947 South Africa.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
wellandtribune.ca | Tan Twan Eng |Christine Higdon |Irena Karafilly |Kate Mosse
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