The Garden of Evening Mists
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A camp survivor seeks to commemorate her sister by working with a Japanese garden master.
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Tan Twan Eng returns to Malayan history in his fiction. The Garden of Evening Mists links postwar memory with art, guilt and forgiveness. Tash Aw and Hanna Alkaf turn attention to migration, social divisions and memories of conflict. Kow Shih-Li and Shirley Geok-lin Lim add a novel and an autobiographical perspective on growing up and emigration.
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