Tan Twan Eng





Tan Twan Eng

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born
Penang, Malaysia

gender
male

influences
Tan's influences include Ishiguro and he reads An Artist of the Floati...more


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Tan Twan Eng talked about his background, his second novel, and his writing process in a May 2012 interview live-tweeted by BooksLiveSA from a literary festival in Franschhoek, South Africa. His hometown is Penang, Malaysia, and he received a law degree there. He said being a lawyer helped him be organized, disciplined, and meticulous, and that lawyers have to craft stories. While he grew up with Malay, Hokkien, and English spoken at home, the author said he thinks and dreams in English. Currently he writes full time, splitting his time between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Cape Town, South Africa. His first novel was The Gift of Rain (2008), set in Penang during World War II. His second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists (2012), which opens j...more


Average rating: 4.07 · 1,011 ratings · 336 reviews · 2 distinct works
The Gift of Rain
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 990 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions
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The Garden of Evening Mists
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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“She saw the stubborn set of my face. "I've never felt blessed," I said. "There must be free will to choose. Do you know the poem about the two roads, and the one not taken?"
Yes. That has always amused me, because who created the two roads in the first place?"
It was a question I had never considered.”
Tan Twan Eng

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