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904467The House of Doorshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-house-of-doors-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/873251/91800621-4fc3-42ec-90d8-296ca1fff9db.jpg?v=638634916245570000265312MXNBloomsbury PublishingInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE<br />SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION<br />INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br />A <em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> EDITORS CHOICE<br />NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY <em>THE NEW YORKER</em>, <em>NPR, SLATE, THE FINANCIAL TIMES,</em> AND A <em>WASHINGTON POST</em> NOTABLE WORK</strong></p><p><strong>The masterful (<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>) Booker longlisted novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.</strong></p><p>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 Roberts, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one.</p><p>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 Lesleys 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.</p><p>A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, <em>The House of Doors</em> 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.</p>...902116The House of Doors265312https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-house-of-doors-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/873251/91800621-4fc3-42ec-90d8-296ca1fff9db.jpg?v=638634916245570000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239781639731947_W3siaWQiOiI3N2ZkNzhlZi0wYjJmLTRiZGMtOTM1Mi00ZTRjZWJhYTRjNjUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI4NiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQzLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI0MywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDktMTZUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781639731947_<p><strong>From the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author</strong> <strong>of <em>The Garden of Evening Mists</em>, a spellbinding novel</strong> <strong>about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution,</strong> <strong>storytelling and redemption.</strong></p><p>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 Roberts, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one.<br />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 Lesleys 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.<br />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.</p>...(*_*)9781639731947_<p><strong>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE</strong><br /><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION<br />INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</strong><br /><strong>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY <em>THE NEW YORKER</em>, <em>NPR, SLATE, THE FINANCIAL TIMES,</em> AND A <em>WASHINGTON POST</em> NOTABLE WORK</strong><br />A <em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> EDITORS CHOICE</p><p>From the bestselling author <strong>of <em>The Garden of Evening Mists</em>, a spellbinding novel</strong> <strong>about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution,</strong> <strong>storytelling and redemption.</strong></p><p>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 Roberts, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one.</p><p>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 Lesleys 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.</p><p>A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, <em>The House of Doors</em> 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.</p>...9781639731947_Bloomsbury Publishinglibro_electonico_3f11170c-e6ce-3c1e-ba20-dfd6e695c778_9781639731947;9781639731947_9781639731947Tan TwanInglésMéxico2023-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Bloomsbury Publishing