![]() ![]() ![]() Yun Ling agrees and discovers more than horticultural finesse. Instead he suggests that she stays, as his apprentice, learning the art in order to become her own designer. Ling's sister perished but the dream of a memorial garden drives her on. When life became difficult during interment, the sisters discussed and visualised the finished result to keep them hanging on. For, whilst in the camp, she promised her sister a Japanese garden. ![]() As the sole survivor of a World War II Japanese slave labour camp, Yun Ling has many reasons to hate the Japanese but some things are stronger than hatred. Malay Chinese Teoh Yun Ling travels to the Cameron Highlands of Malaya to meet the legendary Japanese garden designer and expert, Nakamura Aritomo. She is apprenticed to the famous Japanese garden expert Nakamuro Aritomo but, against a background of Malayan Communists destroying all vestiges of normal life, Yun Ling has to come to terms with more than horticulture. Summary: Teoh Yun Ling survives a Japanese WWII slave camp with one enveloping desire – to build a Japanese garden as a memorial for her late sister. ![]()
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