Magical writing, evocative of Malaya
- Book: The Garden of Evening Mists
- Location: Cameron Highlands
- Author: Tan Twan Eng
An interesting combination of location and story – the velvet landscapes of the tea plantations are beautiful, the mist rising, the descriptions of markets really brought me to this part of the world. As I write, this book is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. I have to say I did find the storyline like treacle in parts, I would read and read and find I had made little headway with the story (both storyline and number of pages covered). So it was a book I felt I ought to finish rather than really actively looked forward to picking up.