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There's much to untangle and savor in this exquisite novel, including the symbolism of the titular doors and the significance of Reynaldo Hahn's musical composition based on Paul Verlaine's poem "L'heure exquise" ("The Exquisite Hour"). From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption. Columbia University’s property has been cleared, the New York Police Department told CNN, less than two hours after officers entered the school’s campus in Morningside Heights. Tactical teams at Columbia first set up a perimeter around the campus to hold back protesters and prevent further arrests, according to the official. Al-Sayyed, who said the arrests took place early Saturday, did not identify the women but indicated that three of them are students at the university and all four are Phoenix-area residents. Since April 18, more than 1,000 people have been arrested on college and university campuses from coast to coast as schools prepare for spring commencement ceremonies, according to a CNN review of university and law enforcement statements.
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In 1921, Somerset Maugham and his partner Gerald Haxton traveled throughout Asia, which included a sojourn in Penang. Maugham gathered personal stories from people he met in Malaya that would inspire his fictional work, The Casuarina Tree, a collection of six stories published in 1926. In “P&O”, a Mrs Hamlyn is on a ship back home to the UK after having left her husband because he had fallen in love with another woman. The story is about her encounters on the ship and how she learns to forgive. Another story, “The Letter”, centers around a woman who shoots and kills her neighbor while her husband is away. She claims it’s in self-defense after the neighbor tried to rape her.
Book Review: Tan Twan Eng’s ‘The House Of Doors’ - Outlook India
Book Review: Tan Twan Eng’s ‘The House Of Doors’.
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Her shifts of time and viewpoint (the two often happening simultaneously) are seamless and masterful. A person dies in the final scene in Moon Tiger, but Lively doesn’t describe it. All the reader senses is that something has depleted from the room in the nursing home, and that something is… life.
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The Daily Bruin had reported a standoff between protesters and counter-protesters, and fireworks being launched into the encampment. The clash came hours after UCLA Chancellor Gene Block called a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus "unlawful" on Tuesday night. We invite you to join our table by preparing a meal for five to eight families at our Pasadena homes during the weekdays. Whether you’re a meal donor on a consistent basis or just once, it is deeply appreciated. Assembly a group, cook a meal, and gather at the table to connect and enjoy the meal with families. During our Summer Carnival in July, and our Christmas Festival in December, we need volunteers to host booths for games, treats, crafts, or any delightful engagement that brings smiles and joy to you and our families.
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In print, on the page, Maugham presented himself as anonymous and dispassionate; a confidante in the shadows recording the confessions of others. At the time of his travels through the Federated Malay States, he was borderline bankrupt, in flight from a sham marriage and accompanied by his rackety lover, Gerald Haxton. Tan takes the famous writer – “Willie” to his friends – and folds him amid the transplanted high society of Penang, a guest at the home of well-to-do Robert and Lesley Hamlyn. Lesley disapproves of Maugham’s lifestyle but sympathises with his plight.
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Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert’s, comes to stay. Lesley knows she is putting herself and her marriage at risk — and also betraying a close friend, Ethel Proudlock, who (in an actual case) was tried in Kuala Lumpur in 1911 for murder. Ethel claimed self-defense from attempted rape, but things were more complicated; as she confided to Lesley, she was actually having an affair with the victim. But I think when we share stories, that's when we really understand each other.
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Their astute houseguest senses that more is amiss than Robert's health. He suspects that Lesley may have had an affair with the Chinese revolutionary Sun Wat Sen when he was in Penang in 1910 raising funds for his cause, a frequent subject of her conversation. (bell dings) - [Twan] It's been the real labor of love, but there's always, the other side of which is frustration is annoyance, irritation, despair, doubt.
The new novel by Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors, is a project of historical fiction immersed in the culturally rich island of Penang in the 1920s. A once revered, now flailing British writer arrives to visit a friend and find inspiration for a new book. What he uncovers – secret affairs, a murder trial, and deeply complicated relationships – proves to be more than he expected. In today's episode, NPR's Ari Shapiro asks the author about using the real writer W. Somerset Maugham as his protagonist, and about what writing from the perspective of the Brits reveals about imperialism.
Fossil Lab includes a fossil preparation space and multipurpose areas for community programs in which school students and others can learn more about the fossils and the innovative projects Sereno and his team have worked on. Officers entered Hamilton Hall, which had been occupied by protesters since the early morning hours Tuesday. "This is a movement that asks Columbia to divest its investments from the companies that are fuelling the war in Gaza right now,” said Khalil, who is a second-year graduate student at Columbia. He said he recognized “many, many Columbia students in the crowd” that formed human chains around the entrances to Hamilton Hall while reporting on the protests.
While staying with the Hamlyns, Maughan develops a friendship with Lesley. The House of Doors is Tan’s first novel since 2012’s Booker-shortlisted The Garden of Evening Mists and shares many of its themes. It’s a book about memory, loss and cultural dissonance; a high-flown tragedy that sideslips through the decades and passes the narrative baton between Lesley and Maugham. While Tan – born in Penang of Straits Chinese descent – is deliberately writing in the voice of the oppressor, he generally does so with care, conscious of the limits of his characters’ language and worldview.
The House of Doors is by turns a portrait of the artist in crisis, a meditation on how and why we tell stories and a heated courtroom drama, spotlighting the Proudlock affair. It’s also a political saga of sorts, charting Lesley’s journey towards self-empowerment and embrace of social activism. Tan tinkers with the timeframe to align the Proudlock trial with the arrival in Penang of Sun Yat-sen, another true-life figure, who dreams of overthrowing the emperor and establishing a republic in China. We view it via Lesley, the white colonial wife, and her vision of events is partial and obscured.
This eventually leads Lesley to confide in Maugham, revealing many personal secrets which would eventually become subjects of Maugham's literary works. This includes Lesley's dissatisfaction with her marriage with Robert. Robert Hamlyn, suffering from the disabling effects of chemical warfare from the First World War, is pressuring his wife, much to her dismay, to move to South Africa where he believes the less humid climate will allow his wounds to heal. Earlier, Lesley told Maugham about her affair with Arthur, a member of Sun Yat-sen's Chinese revolutionary party, when he was in Malaysia to raise funds for the campaign. Lesley felt justified in engaging in the invigorating affair with her true love after learning of her own husband's infidelity. And Lesley also tells Maugham of her friend Ethel Proudlock, who was tried for murder in 1911 after killing a man who she claimed had tried to rape her.
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