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A review by bayleerobards
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
4.0
#43 of 2023 and my seventh #BookerwithBay from the 2023 longlist – The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng.
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The House of Doors is a novel steeped in historical context based on true events: the trials of Oscar Wilde and demonization of queer men in the late 1800s on, imperial colonization of Malaysia in the 1920s, the Ethel Proudlock case, and William Somerset Maugham’s writing. It uses the historical setting and backdrop of imperial scandal to ask questions about empires, marriage, inferiority, the beginnings of revolution, and more. Sheeeesh
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The House of Doors is a novel steeped in historical context based on true events: the trials of Oscar Wilde and demonization of queer men in the late 1800s on, imperial colonization of Malaysia in the 1920s, the Ethel Proudlock case, and William Somerset Maugham’s writing. It uses the historical setting and backdrop of imperial scandal to ask questions about empires, marriage, inferiority, the beginnings of revolution, and more. Sheeeesh