Weinstein
Publishing|September 4, 2012|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-1602860180-0
Malaya, 1951, Yun
Ling Teah, 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 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 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?
Very good read! Enthralling.
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