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The garden of evening mists / Tan Twan Eng.

By: Publication details: New York : Perseus Books Group, 2012.Description: 335 p. pbkISBN:
  • 9781602861800 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • FIC ENG 23
Summary: A mesmerizing new novel of love and wartime from the critically acclaimed author of THE GIFT OF RAIN. It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. 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.
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Fiction Markdale Branch Shelves FIC ENG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33436003077895

Nominated for the 2012 Man Booker prize.

A mesmerizing new novel of love and wartime from the critically acclaimed author of THE GIFT OF RAIN. It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. 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.

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