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The Garden of Evening Mists

Written by:
Tan Twan Eng
Narrated by:
Anna Bentinck

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
6
Narrator
2
Release Date
October 26, 2012
Duration
15 hours 40 minutes
Summary
This “elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory' (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime camp as she begins working for an exiled former gardener of the Emperor.

Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former
gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden 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.' Then she can design a garden for herself.

As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to the gardener and his art, while all around them a communist guerilla war rages. But the Garden of Evening Mists remains a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to
survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?
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KT

The writing was beautiful and atmospheric, but a bit overwritten at times. I learned a lot about Malaysia in WWII, art, war and gardening, but it required a great deal of focus from the reader. A tedious, but worthwhile read.

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