gift rain novel

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5 reviews
Tan Twan Eng

Weinstein Books, 2008

'I was born with the gift of rain ..'
This is a powerful and compelling first novel. Starting in 1939 on Penang Island, the novel tells the story of Philip Hutton and his friendship with Hayato Endo. As war engulfs much of Asia and spills into Malaya, tensions between families and within families overwhelm both the past and the present. While the characters are fictional, the historical setting is not. The story moves through ...