Literary places in Cameron Highlands

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng

The Cameron Highlands are Malaysia's cool tea country, a hill station of mist, jungle and terraced estates high in Pahang. A survivor of a wartime Japanese camp comes here to build a garden for her dead sister and instead apprentices to a Japanese gardener, while the Malayan Emergency simmers in the surrounding forest. The map runs from the town of Tanah Rata out across the tea slopes to the mossy summit forest, with the frame narrator's Kuala Lumpur far below.

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