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A story, like a bird of the mountain, can carry a name beyond the clouds, beyond even time itself. He has not appeared in my thoughts in a long time, but as I gaze at the mountains from my stoep on this autumn morning I can hear his thin, dry voice, his diction precise, correct, like everything else about him. In my memory I see him again, on his last night in our old house on the other side of the world, the two of us on the verandah behind the house, talking quietly, the full moon a coracle of light adrift above the sea. When morning came he sailed from Penang, and I never saw him again. Ten thousand days and nights have drifted down the endless river since that evening.
The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng
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Author Tan Twan Eng on new book The House of Doors: 'Some people remarked writing about real life figures must be easy' - Firstpost
Author Tan Twan Eng on new book The House of Doors: 'Some people remarked writing about real life figures must be easy'.
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The author Tan Twan Eng writes historical fiction set in Malaysia, the country where he was raised. His newest novel, "The House Of Doors," revolves around a famous British author who spent time traveling in the region, the short story writer W. "The House Of Doors" has already made the longlist for this year's Booker Prize, and Tan Twan Eng is here to talk with us about it. Somerset Maugham published “The Casuarina Tree,” a book of six short stories. Maugham was at the height of his success, as a great, and greatly rewarded, writer of immense dexterity and enormous efficiency. As his biographer Selina Hastings writes, “For much of his long life”—he died in 1965, at ninety-one—Maugham was “the most famous writer in the world.” He had the kind of celebrity that now attends actors, musicians, and criminal politicians.
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I haven’t been able to sit down for an extended period of time to work on my new novel. The past year I was one of the judges of the International Booker Prize 2023, and that involved reading 135 novels in nine months. This year has been and will be taken up with promoting The House of Doors. Because I was writing about Maugham writing his stories, I felt I had to follow his lead. Eventually I abandoned that idea, and then the writing just opened up.
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And in fact, I had to cut out a lot of the more exciting and colorful sequences of his life, much to my regret, mainly because they were not relevant to the story I was writing. By creating an account, you acknowledge that PBS may share your information with our member stations and our respective service providers, and that you have read and understand the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. The Booker Prize Foundation benefits financially from purchases you make using 'buy the book' links on our website. Find out how we use this money to support readers and writers of the future.
The Proudlock scandal would later be refitted to form the basis for The Letter, an acclaimed short story by W Somerset Maugham, that pitiless chronicler of so much human frailty. It now provides the prompt for Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, an ambitious, elaborate fiction about fictions that beats back to the humid heyday of empire and instals the bestselling author as a flawed player in the drama. “We will be remembered through our stories,” Maugham declares at one point.
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The interior features a plein air painting by Shag, along with vintage photos of everyone from Sigourney Weaver to The Go-Go's and Devo in front of Tail o' the Pup. A plaque notes that Jim Morrison laid down the vocals for "LA Woman" in the bathroom. As Willie prepares to face his demons, Lesley confides secrets of her own, including her connection to the case of an Englishwoman charged with murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts – a tragedy drawn from fact, and worthy of fiction.
Lesley tells Maugham about her relationship with Arthur and about his House of Doors. She also tells him about her friend, Ethel Proudlock, who shot and killed a man she wasn’t married to. While Maugham listens to Lesley’s stories, he worries about a failed investment scheme that has left him all but bankrupt. Several years later, sales of The Casuarina Tree will help him recoup these losses and go on to divorce his wife and live as he pleases. When this book comes out, it’s been several years since Lesley has seen Maugham.
