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03051aam a2200445 i 4500 001 20481672509B11EFA2FD99314CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240802014727 008 240212t20242023miu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2024005838 020 $a 1420514776 020 $a 9781420514773 (large print : hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1427954395 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IFK $d NMS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PR9530.9.E54 $b H68 2024 082 00 $a 823.92 $2 22 100 1 $a Tan, Twan Eng, $d 1972- $e author. 245 14 $a The house of doors / $c Tan Twan Eng. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Farmington Hills : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2024. 263 $a 2407 300 $a 501 pages (large print) 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Maugham, W. Somerset $q (William Somerset), $d 1874-1965 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Proudlock, Ethel $x Trials, litigation, etc. $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Triangles (Interpersonal relations) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Married people $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Malaya $x History $y British rule, 1867-1942 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Pulau Pinang (Malaysia : State) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Pinang Island (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240802015758.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20481672509B11EFA2FD99314CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search