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Hundreds of years ago 16151868 the tokugawa shoguns ruled japan according to a strict classbased, hierarchical society. His second novel, the garden of evening mists, will be published in the united kingdom in february 2012. Tan twan engs sumptuous second novel, the garden of evening mists, named last month to the 2012 man booker prize short list, imagines the story of one survivor. Oct 05, 2012 the garden of evening mists, a finalist for this years man booker prize, plumbs the basics of human nature as it asks how we can commit so many atrocities in a time of war and, at the.
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