Книга: Tan Twan Eng «The Garden of Evening Mists»

The Garden of Evening Mists

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Tan Twan Eng writes with breath-catching poise and grace. (Independent). In the lush highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese during the brutal Occupation of their country. Yun Ling's quest leads her to The Garden of Evening Mists, and to Aritomo, a man of extraordinary skill and reputation, once the gardener of the Emperor of Japan. When she accepts his offer to become his apprentice, she begins a journey into her past, inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country's history.

Издательство: "Canongate" (2013)

ISBN: 978-1-78211-018-7

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The Garden of Evening MistsTan Twan Eng writes with breath-catching poise and grace. (Independent). In the lush highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese… — Canongate, Подробнее...20131226бумажная книга

Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian author born in Penang in 1972. [http://www.tantwaneng.com/news4.html] His first novel "The Gift of Rain" was published in 2007 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize that year; it is set in Penang in the years before and during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in WWII.

He studied law at the University of London and worked as an intellectual property lawyer in Kuala Lumpur. He is currently living in Cape Town, South Africa working on his second book (which is to be set in the Cameron Highlands, Pahang, during the Emergency). He has a first-dan ranking in aikido.

In the last year he has spoken and appeared at various literary festivals, including the Singapore Writers' Festival, the Ubud Writers' Festival in Bali, The Asia Man Booker Festival in Hong Kong, the Shanghai Literary Festival, the Perth International Writers' Festival, and also at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, Australia.

He ranks Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro as two of the best writers writing today.

External links

* [http://www.tantwaneng.com Author website]
* [http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=1573 Author interview]

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