The Garden Of Evening Mists Summary. A survivor of a brutal japanese internment camp, teoh yun ling has been working with the malaysian authorities punish the japanese war criminals for several years. 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.
Yun ling's quest leads her to the garden of evening mists, and to aritomo, a man of extraordinary skill and reputation, once the gardener of the emperor of japan. The garden called evening mists is where she learned about the art of borrowed scenery, “taking elements and views from outside a garden and making them integral” to the garden itself. As yugiri reveals secrets of its own, yun ling and aritomo embark on a forbidden love affair.
She is apprenticed to the famous japanese garden expert nakamuro aritomo but, against a background of malayan communists destroying all vestiges of normal life, yun ling has to come to terms with more than horticulture.
The garden called evening mists is where she learned about the art of borrowed scenery, “taking elements and views from outside a garden and making them integral” to the garden itself. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 350 pages and is available in hardcover format. A rising star from malaysia returns with an elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory. The garden of evening mists a novel (book) :
