Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town. The House of Doors is his third novel.
'So well-written . . . this is a book that will mesmerize readers
into the far future.' -COLM TIBN
'A book that believes instinctively in the beauty of language, in
the ability of the sentence to transport us; we get to luxuriate in
every description, live inside every image' -ANDREW McMILLAN
'An amazingly transporting novel about love, desire and duty'
-JONATHAN LEE
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