Podcasts Culture World Book Club Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists

Published: June 4, 2016, 4:10 p.m.

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This month we\\u2019re in The Book Lounge Bookshop in Cape Town, South Africa and talking to the Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng about his Man Asian Literary Prize-winning novel, The Garden of Evening Mists.

This haunting tale, set in the jungles of Malaya during and after World War II, centres on Yun Ling, the sole survivor of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in which her sister perished.

Driven by the desire to honour her sister\\u2019s memory through the creation of a lush and sensuous garden Yun Ling falls into a relationship with the enigmatic Japanese gardener Aritomo and begins a journey into her past, inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country\\u2019s history.

(Picture: Tan Twan Eng. Credit: Lloyd Smith.)

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