El jardín de las brumas / The Garden of the mists

from EBT1002

Another five-star read. Set in Malaya/Malaysia at a number of different points in time, this is the story of Teoh Yun Ling, who "never changed the order of [her] name" and had "never taken on an English name just to make it easier for anyone." The sole survivor of a Japanese war camp, she comes t...

from SandDune

Teoh Yun Ling takes early retirement from her position as a Supreme Court Judge in the Malaysia of the 1980's to return to the garden of Yugiri in the Cameron Highlands: a place which had a pivotal role in her life but one that she had not visited for the last thirty-six years. A demanding and of...

from kidzdoc

This story begins on the last day of Teoh Yun Ling's career as a Supreme Court justice in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur in the mid 1980s. Yun Ling has had, by every measure, a remarkable and successful life despite extreme hardship and loss. She was born to privilege, as a member of a wea...

from brenzi

What a joy for the reader to unfold layer upon layer of narrative in this Booker-nominated novel. Set in the Cameron Highlands, outside of Kuala Lumpur, it is told by Yun Ling Teoh, sole survivor of a Japanese prison camp during WWII. In 1951, she returns to the area and, in an ironic twist, beco...

from The_Hibernator

Having suffered through a Japanese slave-camp during WWII, Yun Ling Teoh, a young Chinese-descent lawyer in Malaysia, carries around a lot of anger against the Japanese. However, she'd made a promise to her deceased sister that she would build a Japanese garden, so she reluctantly visits Aritomo ...