Tan Twan Eng
Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award . The House of Doors is his third novel. @tan.twan.eng
Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award . The House of Doors is his third novel. @tan.twan.eng See less
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Tan Twan Eng book reviews
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The Gift of Rain. Tan Twan Eng
Complex Nature of Good and Evil
by Eleanor, Sep 19, 2015
The book explores the pathological loyalty woven into the relationship between a Chinese/British young man and his Japanese martial arts teacher. We see the final decisions of the two friends as the ... Read More
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Wonderful Book
This book is very good and a very powerful story.
If you haven't read his books before you must do so. Excellent writer. Read More
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Excellent read
by George P, May 23, 2013
Tan Twan Eng's tale of tangled relationships between a transplanted Boer planter, a Japanese master gardener, and a Straits Chinese judge weaves together Zen Buddhism and the modern history of Asia ... Read More
