Friday 15 March 2013

Tan Twan Eng wins Man Asian prize | The Guardian




“The Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng has won the 2012 Man Asian prize with his novel, The Garden of Evening Mists.

His novel, which was shortlisted for last year's Booker prize, was hailed by the chair of judges Maya Jaggi for its "stylistic poise and probing intelligence".

"Taking its aesthetic cues from the artful deceptions of Japanese landscape gardening," she said, "it opens up a startling perspective on converging histories, using the feints and twists of fiction to explore its themes of personal and national honour; love and atonement; memory and forgetting; and the disturbing co-existence of cultural refinement and barbarism."”

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