Gift of Rain A Novel

Name: Gift of Rain A Novel
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ISBN: 9781602860742

ISBN-10: 1602860742

ISBN-13: 9781602860742

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Authors: Tan Twan Eng, Tan Twan Eng

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The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits. In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton-the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families-feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities. He at last discovers a sense of belonging in his unexpected…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.45" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English