![]() ![]() Only Yun Ling survives the camp, and sets out to create a Japanese garden to honor her sister. The girls find solace from the cruelties the Japanese soldiers inflict upon them by remembering a beautiful Japanese garden they once visited in Kyoto. When her affluent family is captured during the Japanese occupation of Malaysia, Yun Ling and her sister are sent to a brutal prisoner of war camp. Questioning what she will become when she is cut off from the world, she realizes that the memories she has worked hard to forget will be her only anchor to the real world, without them she will be "a ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity." Remembering will require her to uncover that past - this is Yun Ling's story. ![]() 'On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the Emperor of Japan.' Teoh Yun Ling retires from her position as a Supreme Court judge in the courts of Kuala Lumpur after discovering that she has aphasia, a disease that will soon render her unable to communicate (already she has flashes where she recognizes nothing). ![]() "Everything Beautiful and Sorrowful About Life" ![]()
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