Tan's Garden of Evening Mists in The Economist's Best Books of 2012

Tan Twan Eng's Garden of Evening Mists selected as one of the best books of 2012 by The Economist. Brief description of the novel from the article:

The Garden of Evening Mists. By Tan Twang Eng. Weinstein; 352 pages; $15.99. Myrmidon; £12.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
A haunting meditation on colonialism, gardens and tattooing, set against the Malay insurgency of the 1950s