The Gift of Rain is set in 1930s Penang, Malaya. While his family is taking an extended trip to England, sixteen year old Philip Hutton meets a Japanese diplomat named Hayato Endo who offers to teach him aikido. As such, Philip and Endo enter into a student and sensei relationship. But in 1941 when Japan enters the war by attacking Malaya and Pearl Harbor, Philip is left to question his loyalties: to his sensei or to his country. The Gift Of Rain is the debut novel by Malaysian author, Tan Twan Eng. It was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. This lavish literary novel is rich with exotic history and full of twists and turns. Highly recommended for literary history fans!
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