A young man's search to understand his father leads back to the last days of British Imperial rule, communist insurrection and the Japanese invasion of Malaysia; illuminating the cultural tensions of the time. The story is woven around a metaphor of an English garden lost in the jumgle. If you enjoy your storytelling straightforward, be prepared for multiple narators, but it does give the feel of piecing the mystery together.
I can pinpoint the exact moment when I knew for certain that my father was afflicted with this terrible disease ...
