An Evening with Tan Twan Eng – Putney

Join us at Waterstones Putney for an insightful evening of conversation with Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Tan Twan Eng.

Tan Twan Eng’s debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Water Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. His third novel, The House of Doors is a characteristically elegant and atmospheric meditation on creativity, empire and public facades as W Somerset Maugham wrestles with writer’s block in 1920s Penang.

Fascinating, engrossing and has given me infinite pleasure – COLM TÓIBÍN

A tremendous feat of literary imagination. Highly evocative, richly observed and entirely convincing, it is a tour de force! – WILLIAM BOYD