The Gift of Rain.
Melbourne. Scribe. 2016. Map, 447pp, 19.7 x 13cm. A very good paperback copy. "Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around..... More