The ten thousand things
"The Ten Thousand Things is a novel of shimmering strangeness? 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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York Review of Books,
2002.
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| Summary: | "The Ten Thousand Things is a novel of shimmering strangeness? 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 Dermout'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"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 208 p. |
| ISBN: | 9781590170137 159017013X |
| Author Notes: | Hans Koning , born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam, came to this country in 1951 and established himself as an American writer in 1958 with his first novel, The Affair . Among his other novels are A Walk with Love and Death, The Petersburg Cannes Express, The Kleber Flight , and, most recently, Zeeland, or Elective Concurrences . |
