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The Garden of Evening Mists Paperback - 2012

by Tan Twan Eng

A mesmerizing new novel of love and betrayal from the critically acclaimed author of "The Gift of Rain," which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2008.


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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 Emporer.
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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  • Title The Garden of Evening Mists
  • Author Tan Twan Eng
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Books, New York
  • Date 2012-09-04
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9781602861800 / 1602861803
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Dixon
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Man-woman relationships, Prisoners of war
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • BookPage, 09/01/2012, Page 0
  • Kirkus Best Fiction, 11/15/2012, Page 14
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2012, Page 1730
  • Library Journal, 09/15/2012, Page 64
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/09/2012, Page 22
  • New Yorker (The), 11/26/2012, Page 79
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2012, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 09/11/2012, Page 0

About the author

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia, but lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. He worked as an Intellectual Property lawyer before resigning from his position to write his novel, The Gift of Rain. His second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, will be published in the United Kingdom in February 2012. The Gift of Rain was nominated for the Man Booker Prize, and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech and Serbian. Tan Twan Eng lives in Cape Town.
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