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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Mary Foster / The Bulletin
May 25, 2008
“The Gift of Rain”
by Tan Twan Eng (Weinstein Books, 448 pgs., $23.95)
Set on the Malaysian island of Penang in 1939, “The Gift of Rain” offers a look at the life of 16-year-old Philip Hutton — half British, half Chinese — who feels....