Tan Twan Eng
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The Garden of Evening Mists
- By: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrator: Tan Twan Eng
- Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 26, 2012
- Language: English
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4.13(16257 ratings)
“One of the best novelists writing today” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Tan Twan Eng presents The Garden of Evening Mists, shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. In 1951, Yun Ling, the only survivor of a Japanese war camp, seeks shelter with Aritomo, the owner of the only Japanese garden in Malaya. As the months pass, Aritomo and Yun Ling open to each other, revealing life-altering secrets.
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- By: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrator: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 16 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 29, 2018
- Language: English
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4.26(9390 ratings)
In the tradition of celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Tan Twan Eng’s debut novel casts a powerful spell.
For the first time, available as an audiobook — 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 friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip proudly shows his new friend around his adored island, and in return Endo teaches him about Japanese language and culture and trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. When the Japanese savagely invade Malaya, Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei — to whom he owes absolute loyalty — is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and must now work in secret to save as many lives as possible, even as his own family is brought to its knees.
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