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Original Title:	The Gift of Rain
ISBN:	1905802056 (ISBN13: 9781905802050)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Malaysia
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2007), POPULAR-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards for Fiction (2009)

The Gift of Rain

Tan Twan Eng

Paperback | Pages: 447 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 11111 Users | 1528 Reviews

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Set in Penang, 1939, this book presents a story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage and enduring love. The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell. 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.

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Title	:	The Gift of Rain
Author	:	Tan Twan Eng
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 447 pages
Published	:	by Myrmidon (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Asia. War. World War II. Literature. Asian Literature

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Ratings: 4.24 From 11111 Users | 1528 Reviews

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Disappointing.This book started off so well but it soon became bogged down with repetitious scenes. After reading half the book I finally laid it to rest.

It has been exactly twelve days since the onset of monsoons. Not a single dry pair of clothes in the house and yet my enthusiasm is as jubilant as the freshly bathed leaves welcoming the cascading raindrops. After all I had waited for an entire month, my eyes widening at every passing water-laden cloud. The grey skies had fooled me and my despair had found its mate in the curled vermillion petals of the Gulmohar tree. The descendant of the Fabaceae heritage has a bittersweet legacy with the

The Gift of Rain is a memoir, the journal of a young boy's coming of age amid the turmoil of WWII in Malaya, a lest-we-forget memorial to the victims of war crimes, a melancholy blues sung to a disappearing world : the exotic cauldron of races and cultures in colonial Penang that is being swallowed up by modern, impersonal highrise developments. I was ready to be enchanted right from the opening stanza, a quote from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby : I am fading away.

Philip Hutton is remembering the tumultuous years in Malaysia around the time of World War II when he was a young man with divided loyalties. As a sixteen-year-old in 1939, he was the son of a prosperous English father and a deceased Chinese mother who felt like he did not fit into either community. He met Hatato Endo, a Japanese diplomat who was renting an island from Philip's father. Endo taught Philip the martial arts skills and mental discipline of aikido, as well as the Japanese language

The setting is the island of Penang, off the coast of Malaya. The population is a complex mix of races, ideologies, and income levels. Chinese, Japanese, Malays, British, Indians, and many people of mixed race share this tiny island and have a history of tensions and race/class divisions. However, they've managed to find ways to live together in relative harmony.When the Japanese occupy the island during World War II, concerns for personal and family safety lead to treachery and betrayal among

"Like the rain, I had brought tragedy into many people's lives but, more often than not, rain also brings relief, clarity, and renewal. It washes away our pain and prepares us for another day, and even another life. Now that I am old I find that the rains follow me and give me comfort, like the spirits of all the people I have ever known and loved." Twan Eng Tan may not be a great prose stylist or even come close to being one. He may falter when it comes to subtlety and fail at inserting

Five stars.....ten stars....who cares...this book is just brilliant!!!!The first half of this book is quite chilled....very nice and beautiful to readabout aikido and Chinese history and life in Penang but you know things are goingto take a turn for the worse....The second half.....all of a sudden the whole scene changes to one of savage cruelty and brutality.I just couldn't put the book down and felt compelled to finish the book in one day.Which I did and it was brilliant!Beautifully written