The Gift of Rain
by:
Tan Twan Eng (author)
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...
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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 you
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781602860599 (1602860599)
Publisher: Weinstein Books
Pages no: 334
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Asia,
World War II,
Japan,
China,
Fiction,
Historical
DNF. I tried about 75 pages of this over the last week and it is not doing anything for me for the following reasons: 1. This is a slow-build of a novel at a time when I am not in the mood for a slow-paced, potentially over-written story. 2. Although the story is set in Penang and I have an i...
Honestly, this is a difficult one for me to write about. I know it won't be some people's cup of tea - it's slow-paced, a little confusing at times, set in a first-person PoV, and isn't afraid of exposition. But I loved it. It was just a good read that I thoroughly enjoyed from cover to cover, esp...
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