skuaAug 16, 2024

#ElderlyRelative is listening to #AudioBook #TheHouseOfDoors by #TanTwanEng.

Hmmm.
Why would the reader/performer of the prologue say "Droenfontein".
Isn't it #Doornfontein?

So now I've got ongoing doubts about the performer's faithfulness to the book and the accuracy of any emphasis they make in their speech.

Don't know how much audiobook performers get paid. Maybe it isn't enough to get correct pronounciation happening for unfamilar words?

And where is their editor?

#ConsumingIn2024

Show threadEllenInEdmonton Sep 1, 2023
@CassandraHouseofPriam @bookstodon
OMG, OMG, OMG!! #TanTwanEng wrote another book!?! The Garden of Evening Mists is one of my all-time favourite books and I've read it at least twice!
Ugh, the only #audiobook options I found are owned by #BoycottBezos so I'll have to be patient and keep searching for it.
Cassandra House of PriamAug 13, 2023
Commencing the marathon of reading the #Booker long list this year with #TanTwanEng's #TheHouseOfDoors. I was unsure about this seemingly traditional historical novel but was beguiled and left totally satisfied by the end. It's poetic pages hold multiple layers of reflection on love, marriage, betrayal and the nature of writing. @bookstodon
Read the Booker Prize 2023 longlist: an extract from The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng | The Booker Prizes
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/read-the-booker-prize-2023-longlist-an-extract-from-the-house-of-doors
Read the Booker Prize 2023 longlist: an extract from The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng | The Booker Prizes

Walter Scott PrizesJan 19, 2023

This is terribly worrying news about Julian Sands ...very much hoping he's found safe. Julian was one of the stars of the film adaptation of The Garden Of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, which won our 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64327393

#HistoricalFiction #WalterScottPrize #JulianSands #missingPersons #TanTwanEng

Julian Sands: British actor identified as hiker missing in southern California

Julian Sands, 65, was last seen hiking in the San Gabriel mountains last week during bad weather.

BBC News