- Gardens, Fiction, Guerrilla warfare, Prisoners of war
"On a mountain above the clouds, in the central highlands of Malaya lived the man who had been the gardener of the Emperor of Japan.”
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Tan Twan Eng
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Canongate Books, Weinstein Books
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781838850685
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Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. His first novel, The Gift of Rain, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech and Serbian. ([source][1]) [1]: http://tantwaneng.com/
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