夕雾花园 (2012)

《夕雾花园》（英语：The Garden of Evening Mists）是马来西亚小说家陈团英的第二部英语小说，于2012年出版。繁体中文版由猫头鹰出版社出版。

主要人物

张云林

中村有朋

Frederik Gemmell

Magnus Gemmell

张云红

Emily

奖项及提名

该书于2012年7月25日提名布克奖，并于9月11日获得入围。

2013年3月14日，获得英仕曼亚洲文学奖。

2014年国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖的八件入围作品之一。

改编电影

该部电影为马来西亚出品，由台湾导演林书宇执导，主演阵容为李心洁、阿部寛、张艾嘉、大卫·奥克斯、约翰·汉纳、朱利安·山德斯。

The Garden of Evening Mists is the second English-language novel by Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng, first published in November 2011. The book follows protagonist Teoh Yun Ling, who was a prisoner of the Japanese during the World War II, and later became a judge overseeing war crimes cases. Seeking after the war to create a garden in memory of her sister, who was imprisoned with her but did not survive, she ends up serving as an apprentice to a Japanese gardener in Cameron Highlands for several months during the Malayan Emergency. As the story begins, years later, she is trying to make sense of her life and experiences.

The novel takes place during three different time periods: the late 1980s, when the main character returns to the Japanese garden, Yugiri, of her apprenticeship and begins to write her memoir; the early 1950s, when the main events of the novel took place; and World War II, which provides the backdrop for the story.

Critical reception for the book was generally favourable. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It was adapted into a feature film by HBO Asia in partnership with three other production companies and released in 2019.

Synopsis

Newly retired Supreme Court Judge Teoh Yun Ling returns to the Cameron Highlands of Malaya, where she had spent a few months as an apprentice to the Japanese gardener she had hoped would design a memorial garden for her sister, Teoh Yun Hong. Oncoming aphasia is forcing Yun Ling to deal with unsettled business from her past while she is still able to remember. The gardener, Nakamura Aritomo, had been Emperor Hirohito's gardener, but relocated to Malaya after a falling-out and spent years designing and building his own garden there, named Yugiri. Later, he disappears without a trace in the highland mountains. Reliving her memories of Aritomo and her time there, Yun Ling begins writing her memoir, and meets with Japanese professor Yoshikawa Tatsuji, who is writing a book about the life and works of Aritomo.

During the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Yun Ling and her older sister Yun Hong had been imprisoned in a Japanese civilian internment camp where Yun Hong was forced to become a "comfort woman" for Japanese soldiers. Yun Hong perishes in the chaos and violence of the end of the occupation, and after the war, Yun Ling wants to fulfill a promise she made to her sister: to build a Japanese garden at their home in Kuala Lumpur. She travels to the highlands to visit old family friend Magnus Pretorius, an expatriate Afrikaner tea farmer whose farm bordered Aritomo's garden, and to seek an audience with Aritomo. Aritomo refuses to design the garden Yun Ling wants to build, but unexpectedly proposes to take her on as an apprentice, so that she can later design and build her sister's memorial garden herself. Despite her bitter attitude toward the Japanese, Yun Ling agrees to the apprenticeship.

During Yun Ling's conversations with Tatsuji, following her return to Yugiri years later, it is revealed that Aritomo was involved in a covert Japanese program during the war to hide looted treasures from occupied territories. The rumours of this so-called "Golden Lily" program were widespread, and Magnus was killed trying to save his family from the Communist guerillas who came looking for the treasure.