the short wanderer

I had been eyeing this one book for quite some time. It's the renowned bestselling book ' The Garden of Evening Mists ' written by the much-celebrated Malaysian author, Tan Twan Eng. The setting of the story in the 1900s compelled me to get my eyes on it, and after finding out that the piece had won the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 I had no reason not to add it to my 'urgent' wishlist and to my delight, my Secret Santa wonderfully fulfilled that request of mine last Christmas. I was reading the chapter where the main character started reading a translated version of Sakuteiki - the oldest collection of writings on Japanese garden-making - when my mind began to wander and seemed to be more interested in the world of its own; which led me to end up writing here instead of finishing the chapter. It wandered off to a place not at all foreign to me, and in fact, a place I've been missing a bit too much for the past few months. Yugiri - a garden the author kept o