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This book has almost universal praise. It is beautifully written but the description takes over from the characters and the story. Yun Ling Teoh and her sister are prisoners of war in a jungle enclave from which only Yun Ling returns. her one wish is to create a garden for her sister. In trying to do this she meets Aritomo a former Gardener of the Emperor of Japan. The story is of love and power used erroneously I struggled to find the main theme of the story and felt there was no unifying threa
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May 22, 2023
Andrea James
marked it as to-read
