The Garden Of Evening Mists Summary. The garden of evening mists is a novel by malaysian author tan twan eng, first published in 2012. Read summary & study guide:
This study guide includes the following sections: Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.” There, she discovers yugiri, the only japanese garden in malaya and its mysterious owner nakamura aritomo.
When she accepts his offer to become his apprentice, she begins a journey into her past, inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country's history.
It centers on judge teoh yun king, an accomplished woman who has risen above a traumatic past that included time as a prisoner of the japanese during world war two. After studying law at cambrige 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. Saturday 28 april 2012 00:06. A rising star from malaysia returns with an elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory.
