03924cam a2200709 4500 1041671982 TxAuBib 20231114120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781639731954 1639731954 e4579e8d-55b6-4e2d-aa5a-79e27df7bd32 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9854779 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Eng, Tan Twan. The House of Doors [Libby]. Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023. Homosexuality. Southeast Asia. Malaya. WWI. Based on a true story. Willie. China. Kuala Lumpur. Historical Fiction. Gay. Malay. England. real. world war 1. scandal. William. Malaysia. English writer. Penang. Booker Prize. man booker. w somerset maugham. the gift of rain. anti-imperial. european writer. Tom Lin. Sun Yat Sen. asian activist. chinese revolutionary. straits settlement. sunyatsen. the garden of evening mists. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 309MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 309MB. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption. The 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. Maugham, 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. A 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. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-11-14 20:00:02. Oakes, David. Newberry, Louise-Mai. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e4579e8d-55b6-4e2d-aa5a-79e27df7bd32&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e4579e8d-55b6-4e2d-aa5a-79e27df7bd32&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)