![]() ![]() 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?"-P. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng Waterstones Basket This item can be found in: Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction Fiction Fiction > Historical fiction The Garden of Evening Mists (Paperback) Tan Twan Eng (author) 3 Reviews Sign in to write a review £8. Tan Twan Engs debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. But the Garden of Evening Mists remains a place of mystery. 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. It’s a book about memory, loss and cultural dissonance a. Aritomo refuses but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice "until the monsoon comes." Then she can design a garden for herself. The House of Doors is Tan’s first novel since 2012’s Booker-shortlisted The Garden of Evening Mists and shares many of its themes. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. ![]()
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