First published in Great Britain in 2023
by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2023 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Tan Twan Eng, 2023
The right of Tan Twan Eng to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Excerpt from The Summing Up by William Somerset Maugham © The Royal Literary Fund. Reproduced by permission of United Agents LLP (unitedagents.co.uk) on behalf of The Royal Literary Fund.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
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ISBN 978 1 83885 829 2
Export ISBN 978 1 83885 830 8
Signed edition ISBN 978 1 80530 085 4
eISBN 978 1 83885 831 5