The Ten Thousand Things The Ten Thousand Things

The Ten Thousand Things

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Publisher Description

Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time).

“Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides.

There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2002
July 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
673.1
KB

Customer Reviews

Lizard19802006 ,

Beautiful and descriptive

The story of Felicia and the stories that intersect with hers are lovingly drawn by the author. The author takes you away to another land, but also a lonely and forlorn place where spirits don't completely rest and magic exists.

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