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4.12 AVERAGE

emotional reflective sad
dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

English Review below.

عليك حقًا أن تكون من محبي الروايات البطيئة للاستمتاع بهذه الرواية ، لأن الأمر يستغرق وقتًا لمتابعة وتيرة القصة بأكملها. أنا من محبي الروايات البطيئة ، وما زلت عانيت صعوبة في الدخول فيها في البداية.

هذه رواية مشحونة ، بها الكثير من السياسة والصدمات العاطفية. نتابع بطلتنا الماليزية الرئيسية في ثلاث مراحل من حياتها: شبابها المبكر عندما كانت سجينة في معسكر حرب ياباني ، ثم الوقت الذي ذهبت فيه إلى مرتفعات ماليزيا وعملها مع بستاني ياباني ، وعودتها في سن الشيخوخة إلى تلك الحديقة وتذكر حياتها ومواجهة شياطين ماضيها.

إنه يُظهر الرعب الذي فعله اليابانيون مع البلدان المجاورة لهم ومعسكرات الأسرى ، ويظهر وجهات نظر مختلفة حيال الحرب من مختلف الشعب الياباني. يوضح كيف يمكنك المضي قدمًا في شفاء ندوبك العاطفية ، وكيف لا يمكن أبدًا شفاء بعض الأشياء حتى مع مرور الوقت. وتتعمق في فن البستنة اليابانية ، والذي بالكاد أعرف أي شيء عنه. تتعمق أيضا في سياسات آسيا ، التي لم أكن أعرف الكثير عنها أيضًا.
إنها قصة عاطفية للغاية عن الخسارة والحزن والتأقلم مع ما حدث لك وكيف تختار التعايش معه.

You really have to be a lover of slow-paced novels to enjoy this one, because it takes its time to pick up the pace and lay out the whole story. I'm a lover of slow-paced novels, and I still had trouble getting into it at the beginning.

This is a charged novel, with a lot of politics and emotional trauma. We follow our main Malaysian heroine in three stages of her life: her early youth when she was a prissoner in a Japanese war camp, the time when she went to Malaysia's highlands and her work with a japanese gardener, and her at old age going back to that garden and remembering her life and facing her demons.

It shows the horrors that the Japanese did to their neighbouring countries and their prisoner camps, and shows differing vie points on the war from different Japanese people. It shows how you can go about to heal your emotional scars, and how some things can never be healed even with time. It also goes deep in the art of Japanese gardening, which I barely knew anything about. It delves deep in the politics of Asia, which I also didnt know much about.

It's a very emotional story about loss and grief and coming to terms with what happeened to you and how you choose to live with it.

It has sat on my shelf for years and I'm so glad I finally read it. An interesting view into a period of history and place in the world that I did not know much about.

I wasn’t sure of this book at first - I even gave up on it about 10% in - but for some reason I felt compelled to finish it. I’m glad I did. It’s not an easy read, emotionally speaking, but it was worth it.
emotional reflective medium-paced
emotional reflective medium-paced

By far, my favourite female protagonist of all time, and certainly in the running for my favourite book of all time.

"We're the only ones left from those withered days. (...) the last two leaves still clinging on the branch, waiting to fall. Waiting for the wind to sweep us into the sky" page 327
challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated