Tan Twan Eng 3 Books Collection Set - The Gift of Rain, The Garden of Evening Mists, The House of Doors - Paperback Literary Fiction Box Set

Titles in This Set The Gift of Rain The Garden of Evening Mists The House of Doors Details Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN: 9789124237479 Publisher: Canongate Books Category: Adult Fiction Overview This Tan Twan Eng 3 Books Collection Set brings together the celebrated Malaysian author's entire body of acclaimed literary fiction in one elegant paperback bundle. Spanning Penang's colonial past, wartime occupation, and post-war reckoning, each novel explores memory, identity, and belonging with hauntingly beautiful prose. Ideal for readers of historical and literary fiction, book clubs, and fans of Booker Prize-calibre storytelling, this set is a brand new addition to any bookshelf, gift list, or reading challenge. About the Books The Gift of Rain introduces sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton, a boy of mixed English and Chinese heritage growing up in 1930s Penang. His unlikely friendship with Japanese diplomat Hayato Endo, who teaches him aikido and a new philosophy of life, is tested as war approaches and loyalties are forced into the open. Tan Twan Eng's debut was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and remains a powerful coming-of-age story of cultural collision and moral consequence. The Garden of Evening Mists follows Yun Ling Teoh, a survivor of a Japanese wartime camp, as she commissions a memorial garden in the Malayan highlands with the help of Aritomo, a mysterious former gardener to the Emperor of Japan. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a novel of art, trauma, and the long shadow cast by war, rendered in restrained, lyrical prose. The House of Doors transports readers to 1921 Penang, where lawyer Robert Hamlyn and his wife Lesley host the celebrated writer Willie Somerset Maugham. As hidden pasts and quiet betrayals surface, the novel weaves fact and fiction into a rich portrait of colonial society, ambition, and creative struggle. It confirms Tan Twan Eng's reputation as one of contemporary fiction's most atmospheric storytellers. Complete 3