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 raised in Malaysia, at the time known as … ...

House of Doors was acquired by Canongate, and after it was edited, Tan’s current agent, Jessica Woollard at David Higham Associates in London, submitted it widely in the U.S. in late summer 2022.

Tan Twan Eng is an internationally recognized writer of historical fiction. His latest book, “The House of Doors,” has just been published by Bloomsbury.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 had to fake it to make it.

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.

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 ...