Tan Twan Eng has been longlisted for The Booker Prize for his masterful novel of public morality and private truth, The House of Doors.

Published by Canongate in the UK and Bloomsbury in the US, the translation rights have been sold in Arabic, Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, French, Italian, Spanish, and German.  Twan will follow his tour of the UK and Asia this summer with a tour of America in the fall.

Twan’s first book The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and his second The Garden of Evening Mists was also shortlisted for the Man Booker and won the 2012 Man Asia Literary Prize.