Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift
of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has
been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man
Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for
historical fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He
divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town.
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Complex and powerful . . . sophisticated and satisfying
* * Sunday Times * *
It is impossible to resist the opening sentence of this sumptuously
produced novel . . . It showcases Tan Twan Eng as a master of
cultural complexities
* * Guardian * *
Elegant and atmospheric
* * The Times * *
An elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory . . . its
beauty never comes to rest
* * Independent * *
Tantalisingly evocative . . . Suffused with a satisfying richness
of colour and character, it still abounds in hidden passageways and
occult corners. Mysteries and secrets persist. Tan dwells often on
the borderline states, the in between areas, of Japanese art: the
archer's hiatus before the arrow speeds from the bow; the patch of
skin that a master of the horimono tattoo will leave bare; or the
"beautiful and sorrowful" moment "just as the last leaf is about to
drop" . . . An elegant and haunting novel of war, art and
memory
* * Independent * *
A beautiful, dark and wistful exploration of loss and remembrance,
that will stay with you long after reading
* * Daily Telegraph * *
War, art and memory join in a subtle story, notable for its
ravishing prose, glorious sense of place, and mature alertness to
the deceptive vistas of history
* * Independent * *
With ravishing sensuousness, it conjures up the lush landscapes and
tea estates of Malaya during the 1950s Emergency, as reflections on
Japanese aesthetic refinements in gardening and art intersect with
recollections of Japanese wartime atrocities in a haunting novel
about memory
* * The Sunday Times * *
This beautifully written book is full of arresting images . . .
Achieved with the seemingly effortless poise of a remarkable
fictional artistry, Tan Twan Eng's winning novel will be prized by
all those who cannot resist the mastery of language
* * Good Book Guide * *
This book is to be kept and re-read and revered for its elegant,
lyrical prose
* * Red * *
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