![]() ![]() “It deals with grieving, memories that you can’t and refuse to let go off. ![]() “This ( The Garden of Evening Mists) is told from a woman’s perspective,” says the writer. “It is about how survivors cope with what they have gone through.”ĭescribed as “a strong, quiet novel” by The New York Times, the second novel builds on a theme that was first explored in Tan’s first book The Gift of Rain (2007), set in the years before and during the war and told from the point of view of a male protagonist. “I wanted to write a good story that would appeal to not just Malaysian readers but around the world as well,” he explains. The Garden of Evening Mists stars Malaysian actress Lee Sinje and Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe Immersed in the philosophy that is at the centre of Japanese gardens, Yun Ling slowly comes to terms with her past. To come to terms with the past, she heads to Cameron Highlands in the midst of the post war Malayan Emergency to seek the help of Japanese gardener Arimoto to build a Japanese garden as an ode to her sister who didn’t survive the war. In it the protagonist Yun Ling (played by Lee) escapes the Japanese occupation scarred by all that she had experienced as a prisoner of war. It is a theme that is heavily explored in his second book The Garden of Evening Mists, published in 2012, now adapted into a film starring Malaysian actress Lee Sinje and Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe. ![]() Tan Twan Eng, author of The Garden of Evening Mists ![]()
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