2013
Forlag Weinstein Books
Utgivelsesår 2012
Format Paperback
ISBN13 9781602861800
Språk Engelsk
Sider 352
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In many ways this book is like a japanese garden, at least the way I understand japanese gardens after reading this book. Everything has a meaning and mostly it doesn't get revealed to you before you are at the right place at the right time. You walk around a corner and suddenly a vista is revealed. Japanese gardens are also very controlled and restrained, another quality I feel it shares with the novel. There's lots of intense feelings, but it's all hidden beneath a veneer of traditions, seremonies and duty. And like the garden offers sudden insights, so does the novel give us new glimpses of both feelings and events.
As a westerner I didn't know much about Malaysia or its history before I read this book, so it was really interesting to learn both a little about World War II in Asia and about Malaysia in the early 1950's, just as their independence was getting close to being a reality. It made me curious to learn more about Malaysia.
I'm usually a fast reader and like/need to finish novels fairly quickly. This one didn't allow me to do that. It required time. Luckily I had the sense to surrender my usual impatience and allow The Garden of Evening Mists the time it needed.
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketI stand at the edge of the pond and gaze at it after she has left. In my head I hear Aritomo's voice again. Do everything correctly and the garden will remember it for you. Over the years I have sometimes wondered why he never wanted his instructions set down on paper, why he was so fearful that his ideas would be stolen and replicated. After staying away from Yugiri for so long, I am now starting to understand, to truly understand, what he meant. The lessons are embedded in every tree and shrub, in every view I look at. He was right – I have committed everything he taught me to my memory. But the reservoir has begun to crack. Unless I write them all down, who will be able to decipher his instructions when I am no longer capable of making anyone understand them, when I myself can no longer understand what I'm saying?
Part 2: Asia, Australia, New Zealand etc.
Reading the World: Read a book from every country in the world. Here's my growing list of titles and recommendations.
Mitt eget lesemål for 2022 er å lese lese mer av forfattarar fra asiatiske, latin-amerikanske og afrikanske land, ei slik bok i måneden. Bøkene er lagt inn kronologisk etter når de ble lest, mao. er den første boka lest i januar og den siste i desember.
Denne listen inneholder mine bøker (inkl. bøker på ønskeliste) fra og om Malaysia. Listen er blitt til etter tre uker i Kuala Lumpur (med noen små avstikkere) sommeren 2013.