The garden of evening mists review5/19/2023 ![]() ‘Sparrows rise from the grass into the trees, like fallen leaves returning to their branches. He asks Yun Lin to become his apprentice instead. The subject matter is sometimes hard to read, Japanese slave camps, Kamikaze pilots, the horror or the second word war and its aftermath, and the book is often sad, but more than that, it is uplifting, leaving you with a sense of the indomitable spirit of human beings and the things we do for those we love. She then visits the former gardener of the Emperor of Japan, to ask him to design a garden in honour of her sister. Yun Lin becomes a judge and prosecutes Japanese war criminals, in the hope of finding out where she and her sister have been incarcerated, but to no avail. ![]() ![]() She made her sister three promises: to escape if she had a chance, to build her the garden they envisioned together and to free her sister’s spirit from wherever she was buried. The story is about Yun Lin, the only survivor of a Japanese camp in Malaya. ![]() The Garden of Evening Mists is very well crafted, elegant, and full of symbolism. It took Tan, listed for the Man Booker Prize for his debut in 2007, five years to finish this book, but what a masterpiece! Not only the poetic prose, but also the plot kept me entranced, up to the last surprise where everything comes together, literally like the pieces of a puzzle. ![]()
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