REVIEW: Nurturing memories
Some novels have opening sentences that instantly capture the reader’s attention. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng is one such novel as it evokes a lush landscape depicted so sumptuously in the very first sentence: “On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the Emperor of Japan.”
Judge Yun Ling Teoh, a former prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp at the age of 19 during World War II, is at the centre of
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