Ten Thousand Things

The Ten Thousand Thingsis a novel of shimmering strangenessthe 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 Dutchor Europeanliterature had seen before.The Ten Thousand Thingsis 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.Dermout, Maria is the author of 'Ten Thousand Things', published 2002 under ISBN 9781590170137 and ISBN 159017013X.