[ebooktalk] Re: current reading
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:26:25 +0100
Thanks for all the details, Alison. I could have looked it up on the
talking book catalogue, but that's saved me some time. I can cope with some
violence, but don't tend to like crime and violence for the sake of it, i.e.
when it's the main plot of the story.
Trish.
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Sent: 24 April 2013 13:33
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Hello Trish
Well, when I say it isn't full of blood and gore, thsat is true, but it does
refer to some acts of terrorism and atrocities committed in Japanese prison
of war camps but I'd definitely not describe it as a violent book. Details
below:
The garden of evening mists (Twan Eng Tan)
Title The garden of evening mists
Author Twan Eng Tan
Synopsis It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent
helping to prosecute
Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of
a brutal
Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of
Northern
Malaya where she grew up as a child. There she discovers Yugiri, the only
Japanese
garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled
former
gardener of the Emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun
Ling seeks
to engage Aritomo to create a garden in Kuala Lumpur, in memory of her
sister who
died in the camp.
Category Adult Fiction: General fiction.
Reader Elaine Claxton
Duration 14:38
Added 18/10/2012
OrderNo 20036
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On Behalf Of Trish Talbot
Sent: 24 April 2013 11:07
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: current reading
Alison, I should know, but can't remember, who is the author of "A Garden Of
Evening Mists"? As someone with a definite preference for anything not
containing blood and gore, I think I might like it.
Trish.
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Sent: 23 April 2013 22:46
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: current reading
Firstly, it is good to be back amongst old friends!
Secondly, I just wanted to tell you about the book I am currently reading.
It is "The garden of evening mist", one of the Man Booker runners-up. I
acknowledged from the start it was really well written but initially thought
I'd be giving up within a page or two. I'm so glad that I stuck with it
though. It is indeed a piece of excellent literature but it also reminds me
strongly of "A Town Like Alice" as it tells the tale of a Malay Chinese girl
who is imprisoned with her sister by the Japanese in Malaya. Her sister dies
in the camp and the girl wants to build a Japanese Garden as a memorial to
her dead sister as she doesn't know where she is buried. Doesn't it sound
boring? But somehow it isn't! It is based in the two or three years after
the Japanese are defeated in the midst of a brutal power struggle by the
communists.
It's very different from my usual blood and gore preference! (smile) Alison
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Sent: 23 April 2013 22:31
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Hi
Alison please respond if this reaches you. I think we are okay this time.
David
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