“On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the Emperor of Japan. Not many people would have known of him before the war, but I did. He had left his home on the rim of the sunrise to come to the central highlands of Malaya. I was seventeen years old when my sister first told me about him. A decade would pass before I travelled up to the mountains to see him.”
From ‘The Garden of Evening Mists’ by Tan Twan Eng

Read my reviews of these novels by Tan Twan Eng:-
THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS
THE GIFT OF RAIN
THE HOUSE OF DOORS

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