![]() ![]() The vision of the Japanese garden they saw in Kyoto when both sisters were on holiday was the image that gave them hope while in the camp. ![]() ![]() Yun Ling’s sister, Yun Hong, died in the camp.ĭespite Yun Ling’s hatred to the Japanese, she asks Aritomo to create a memorial garden for her sister. Yun Ling is a survivor of the Japanese camp during WWII, she has spent the last few years helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals and Communist Terrorists (CT) who are fighting the post-independence government in the rain forest and in the highlands. A war would come, and a decade would pass before she would journey to see him. So back to the book, Teoh Yun Ling was 17-year-old when she first heard about Nakamura Aritomo. Twan-Eng is his first name because in the Chinese culture, the family must come first. ![]() But this may very well be Tan’s sentiment about his name. Good for you Tan Twan Eng, I mean Yun Ling, the protagonist. I had never changed the order of my name, not even when I studied in England, and I had never taken on an English name just to make it easier for anyone.” Being Straits Chinese, my parents spoke mainly English, and they had asked a family friend who was a poet to choose a name for me. I was born in 1923 in Penang, an island on the north-west coast of Malaya. ![]()
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