![]() ![]() He refuses, instead offering to teach Yun Ling how to create a garden herself in return for her work on restoring his garden the garden of evening mists. Supressing the pain of the war and honouring her sister, Yun Ling attempts to commission Aritomo to create a garden for her lost sister. In the neighbouring valley was the house of Aritomo the former head gardener to the Emperor of Japan. Yun Ling had sought shelter with an eccentric South African tea plantation owner in the Cameron highlands. Yun Ling and her sister had been interned in a prison camp by the Japanese during the war where her sister had been killed. ![]() It had been her life’s ambition to create one. Her sister had had a passion for ornamental Japanese gardens before the Japanese invasion. Yun Ling had travelled to the Cameron Highlands with a mission after the war. The novel’s protagonist, retired Justice Yun Ling Teoh travels back to the Cameron Highlands where in the face of an ebbing memory she recalls her youth in her memoirs. ![]() The emergency would last from 1948 until 1960. The battle was principally between Commonwealth forces and the Malayan National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Malayan Communist party back by China and the Soviet Union. ![]() Once the war had ended these now armed factions resumed their conflict. During the Second World War an alliance of former foes had united in opposition to the Japanese occupation of the Malaya Peninsular. Malaya 1949 and the country is in the midst of what came to be known as The Emergency. ![]()
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