2007The Gift of Rain
Tan Twan Eng
On the island of Penang, the half-English, half-Chinese Philip Hutton is taken as a pupil by the Japanese diplomat Endo-san, who teaches him aiki-jutsu and a hard code of duty, only for the bond to be tested to breaking when Japan invades Malaya in 1941. Tan maps his home island: the Hutton family's George Town mansion and the colonial society of the port, the small island off the coast where Endo-san lives and teaches, the town under brutal occupation, and Penang Hill above it all.
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