The Garden of Evening Mists
Malaysian novelist, born 1972. Won the Walter Scott Prize in 2013.
The Garden of Evening Mists is a 2012 novel by Tan Twan Eng. It won the Walter Scott Prize in 2013.
On 2 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Tan Twan Eng
- First published
- 2012
- Length
- 352 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 2012
- Walter Scott Prize winner, 2013
- Genre
- Historical fiction, War and conflict, Empire and colonialism, Love story
Is The Garden of Evening Mists worth reading?
2 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Walter Scott Prize and the Booker Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2012) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2013) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of The Garden of Evening Mists
The edition we link to is the Canongate Canons paperback (2019), 352 pages.
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons (paperback, 2019)
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9781786893895
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Garden of Evening Mists
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 56% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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