The Garden of Evening Mists

Large Print
(528 Pages)
Product Number: LP2857
Released: 01 Oct, 2012
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781471216664
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

Malaya, 1949. Yun Ling Teoh, a law student and the lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya. There she discovers the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo. Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in Kuala Lumpur, in memory of her sister who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses, but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice 'until the monsoon comes'. But the Garden of Evening Mists is also a place of mystery, and soon starts to reveal secrets of its own… The Garden of Evening Mists deals with Malaysia's turbulent road to independence, a time of insurrection, uncertainty and terror.

Author(s): Tan Twan Eng
Awards:Shortlisted for the Man Booker 2012
Original Publish Date: 01 Oct, 2012

Professional reviews

"A beautiful and haunting novel, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. ‘Just as elegantly planted as his Man Booker longlisted debut The Gift of Rain, and even more tantalisingly evocative.’ THE INDEPENDENT"

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