Tan Twan Eng Longlisted for Booker 2012

I guess we should note that Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mist has been longlisted for the Booker this year….the only Asian related title on the list.

Set during the Japanese occupation, The Garden of Evening Mists follows young law graduate, Yun Ling Teoh, as she seeks solace among the plantations of the Cameron Highlands. Here she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the secretive Aritomo. Aritomo agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice “until the monsoon” so that she can design a garden in memorial to her sister. But over time the jungle starts to reveal secrets of its own…