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Article: Tan Twan Eng. The Gift of Rain.(Book review)
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- World Literature Today
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- November 1, 2008
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Tan Twan Eng. The Gift of Rain. New York. Weinstein. 2008. 435 pages. $23.95. ISBN 978-1-60286-024-7
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Fifty years after the end of the Second World War, an old Japanese widow named Michiko Murakami appears at the door of Philip Hutton in Penang, eager for information about her former lover Endo-san. Their meeting unfolds a 432-page memory of most remarkable events drawn in such vivid detail in Tan Twan Eng's debut novel, The Gift of Rain, that they can compare with those in such masterpieces as Tolstoy's War and Peace and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago.
Philip Hutton is the offspring of an Englishman and his second wife, who ...