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'On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the Emperor of Japan. Not many people would have known of him before the war, but I did. He had left his home on the rim of the sunrise to come to the central highlands of Malaya. I was seventeen years old when my sister first told me about him. A decade would pass before I travelled up to the mountains to see him.

He did not apologise for what his countrymen had done to my sister and me. Not on that rain-scratched morning when we first met, nor at any other time. What words could have healed my pain, returned my sister to me? None. And he understood that. Not many people did. '

Pg 1, The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Casheyane · 26-30, F
Sounds good. I kinda wanna read and know where it goes.
Cierzo · M
It sounds like the beginning of a great book. I wonder whether the controversial topic or Japanese apologies (lack of them) to the peoples they massacred in WW2 is very present in it.
JustNik · 51-55, F
I always wonder about that. People or places who demand apology from those who didn’t actually commit the crime. I agree with this sentiment.

 
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