![]() ![]() ![]() But the Garden of Evening Mists is also a place of mystery. And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all Genre: Literary Fiction. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to her sensei and his art while, outside the garden, the threat of murder and kidnapping from the guerrillas of the jungle hinterland increases with each passing day. Then she can design a garden for herself. Aritomo refuses, but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice 'until the monsoon comes'. ![]() Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in Kuala Lumpur, in memory of her sister who died in the camp. 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. 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. ![]()
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