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Yun Ling has retired from the Malayan Supreme Court, and traveled back to the Cameron Highlands where she had lived during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s. She has just been diagnosed with early aphasia, and wants to write down her memories before her mind forgets the past.
Yun Ling and her sister Yun Hong were teenage prisoners in a Japanese prison camp in the Malayan jungle during World War II. Although they had Chinese ancestry, they were admirers of Japanese gardens which they had visited ...more
Yun Ling and her sister Yun Hong were teenage prisoners in a Japanese prison camp in the Malayan jungle during World War II. Although they had Chinese ancestry, they were admirers of Japanese gardens which they had visited ...more
Deceptively gentle. Packs a punch.
One of the most most elegantly crafted books I have ever read. It is the literary equivalent of one of the central plot points of the book - the horimoto (tattoo).It starts and ends without borders nor definitive events - bleeding off into time and memory. With reflection new connections are made within the piece and, like a masterpiece horimoto is left unfinished as a reminder that nothing is every truly complete or understood.
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