Presenting our hundredth Canon - The Garden of Evening Mists. Expect to see widespread celebration throughout April and a huge online conversation as we celebrated the #Canons100 in all their glory. From Nan Shepherd to Yann Martel, Barack Obama to Margaret Atwood, the Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon.

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Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see him. A man of extraordinary skill and reputation, Aritomo was once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan, and now Yun Ling needs him. She needs him to help her build a memorial to her beloved sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese. She wants to learn everything Aritomo can teach her, and do her sister proud, but to do so she must also begin a journey into her own past, a past inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country.

A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty.