![]() The 2012-released The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng won the Man Asian Literary Prize. secrets are divulged as in her retirement she works to restore the garden that has been barely maintained since his death, and looks back on her life. In the 1980s, Yun Ling is approached by a professor studying Aritomo. He refuses, but takes Yun Ling on as an apprentice in his garden, Yugiri (Evening Mist) though she struggles with his heritage, they become lovers. Yun Ling travels back then to meet with a former gardener of the Japanese emperor, Aritomo, to see if he will help build a garden in her memory. Her sister, a Japanese garden enthusiast, died while they were prisoners. ![]() Pressed on by a memory-degenerative disease, a just-retired judge, Yun Ling Teo, starts to write a memoir of her life in the Cameron Highlands in the 1950s, after she was released as a Japanese prisoner of war. ![]()
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