Carolyn Gan Reviews The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Verdict: carrot
In Tan Twan Eng’s new novel The Garden of Evening Mists (Weinstein Books), Yun Ling is quickly losing her memory. In an effort to “dance with the music of words, for one more time,” and to remember her year with the enigmatic Japanese gardener Aritomo, she turns to two things that have helped her cope in her life: she writes, and she works in the garden of Yugiri.
From the start, author Tan Twan Eng establishes the novel’s dance partners: memory and forgetting, writing and gardening, Yun Ling and Aritomo. Yun Ling is a Malaya-born Chinese rubber merchant’s daughter who has a lifelong fascination with Japanese gardens. Aritomo is the enigmatic former gardener for the Emperor of Japan who creates Yugiri, a classic Japanese garden, in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands.
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- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
EAN: 9781905802623
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