Eng Meng Tan passed away peacefully on March 9, 2024, at the age of 97 at his home in La Jolla, California surrounded by his wife and sons. He was born and Eng Meng Tan – San Diego Union-Tribune ...

Tan Twan Eng’s third novel, The House of Doors, publishing in October with Bloomsbury, was inspired by “The Letter,” a W. Somerset Maugham story that fictionalizes the murder of tin mine ...

How author Tan Twan Eng reimagined a century-old scandal in ‘The House of Doors’ The writer uses author W. Somerset Maugham’s visit to Malaysia in the early 1920s to explore love, marriage ...

Tan Twan Eng’s novel The House of Doors makes an undeniably compelling tale out of one of the 20th century’s greatest political convulsions, while mixing it with a piece of literary history that is ...

Tan Twan Eng's latest novel, The House of Doors, is a decade-shifting epic that delves into tragedy, cultural dissonance and memory loss. His latest novel was longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize ...

Tan Twan Eng’s latest novel, The House of Doors, explores themes of love, betrayal, truth and fiction set in colonial British society in Malaya. Chair of the International Booker Prize 2023, Tan ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Tan Twan Eng about his latest book, The House of Doors, a decade shifting novel delving into tragedy, cultural dissonance and memory loss.

The unexpected arrival of a package from Penang Island in 1947 prompts Lesley Hamlyn to look back on her life there in Tan Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors.” What does this copy ...

Somerset Maugham's short story “The Letter” serves as the linchpin of Tran Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors,” which was selected for the 2023 Booker Prize long list.

Authors – they’re just like us. Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng, 51, whose latest novel The House of Doors has been longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, confides that he, like many of us, has ...

The writer uses author W. Somerset Maughan’s visit to Malaysia in the early 1920s to explore love, marriage, race and crime in British colonial society.