![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story interweaves three distinctive periods of Yun Ling’s life and of Malaysian history. Like Aritomo, author Tan incorporates borrowed scenery in his novel. “You cut the grass to different levels,” Yun Ling remarks to Aritomo. Aritomo plays with perspective throughout Yugiri, surprising visitors with unexpected views. His placement of a fountain or a pond might reflect a distant view, taking elements from the world and making them part of his creation. Aritomo is the enigmatic former gardener for the Emperor of Japan who creates Yugiri, a classic Japanese garden, in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands.Īritomo is a master of shakkei or Borrowed Scenery. ![]() Yun Ling is a Malaya-born Chinese rubber merchant’s daughter who has a lifelong fascination with Japanese gardens. In an effort to “dance with the music of words, for one more time,” and to remember her year with the enigmatic Japanese gardener Aritomo, she turns to two things that have helped her cope in her life: she writes, and she works in the garden of Yugiri.įrom the start, author Tan Twan Eng establishes the novel’s dance partners: memory and forgetting, writing and gardening, Yun Ling and Aritomo. In Tan Twan Eng’s new novel The Garden of Evening Mists (Weinstein Books), Yun Ling is quickly losing her memory. ![]()
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