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The house of doors / Tan Twan Eng. - Edinburgh : Conongate, 2023. - [8], 306 stron ; 24 cm.

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Eng Tan Twan (1972- ).

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Pisarze Osoby homoseksualne Białe małżeństwo Problemy małżeńskie Etyka Płeć Seksualność Władza Wspólnota Narodów

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Książka w języku angielskim. The third novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s PenangIt is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Roberts, comes to stay.Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more Lesleys friendship with Willie grows, the more clearly she see him as he is a man who has no choice but to mask his true self.As Willie prepares to leave and face his demons, Lesley throws caution to the wind, and confides how she came to know the charismatic Dr Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary fighting to overthrow the imperial dynasty of China. And more scandalous still, she reveals 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.From Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors is a masterful novel of public morality and private truth a century ago. Based on real events it is a drama of love and betrayal under the shadow of Empire.

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