Maria Dermoût
Paperback | Pages: 244 pages Rating: 3.8 | 1077 Users | 195 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Ten Thousand Things |
| Author | : | Maria Dermoût |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 244 pages |
| Published | : | June 12th 1984 by Vintage (first published 1955) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Cultural. Asia |
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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 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.
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| Original Title: | De tienduizend dingen |
| ISBN: | 0394724437 (ISBN13: 9780394724430) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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The "Small Garden" at the Inner Bay, a picturesque place where the views, the smells, sounds and colours, "held her, slowly enveloped her, showed her things, whispered her its secrets..." It is a place where time can stand still, where past and present and future, perhaps?, can fuse into one unifying image. The "lady of the Small Garden" likes to wander along its paths, or resting somewhere in the shade, letting her mind go back in time, remembering those before her who lived here and those whoThis book was on Ted Schmeckpeper's "To-Read" shelf, one of 960 he had listed. It's about a Dutch woman living with her son on one of the Spice Islands at the beginning of the twentieth century. I struggled, perhaps, with the deeper meaning of the book, and surely didn't love it as so many others did here. Yet in the end it was about loss and the remembrance of things and people. So, if this was a convenient read for Ted, it was also appropriate.I usually am moderately annoyed at the
This is a series of related stories, set on the island of Ambon (Spice Islands, Indonesia, at the time of Dutch East India). The main character Felicia has similarities with the author Maria Dermoût. That connection is visible in the murdered son Himpies. And there are several murdered people in the stories of the book. As in Tao, all things are related in the universe. The Small Garden of the setting, which goes back to at least Felicia's Grandmother in the story is in Inner Bay. It's a natural
Wonderful, magical book, unlike anything I've read before. Set in Indonesia; peopled by Dutch and Indonesian, the living and the dead; following a narrative path of its own through the physical world, the natural world, the spiritual world to tell such stories...difficult to describe as they are truly singular. This book must be experienced.I envisioned writing a longer review but at the moment inspiration is lacking and I will leave it here. This is highly recommended to all who are not
The trouble began with words, really.No longer was something a thing in essence. For neither world nor time has the patience for lists of reinvention, a praxis on praxis where the slightest shift required a churning and blooming of sui generis for that one birth, that one core. World and time, so long as human muddies up the lines in hasty life and mortal unease, needs condense. But also stretch, for both world and time are vast unknowns dripping with fragrant allurements for the passing human,
Quite a beautifully sad book. Written in her 60s, Dermout is no doubt relaying herself through Felicia who returns to the small island of her birth in the Moluccas during the early 20th century.There is great love of the land, sea and people in this story as Felicia learns and then teaches her son the ten thousand things that go to make up their island. But the sadness it through who trying to make sense of the various murders past and current that have occurred and what is meant to the people
A Vigil for All the Murdered She knew that a bay and rocks and trees bending over the surf cannot relieve sadnesscan sadness be relieved, or can one only pass it by, very slowly? In my reading over the past decade, I have really come to trust the reissues of the New York Review of Booksworks of fiction, predominantly foreign, that have undeservedly slipped out of circulation. They do for older literature what the Europa Press does for contemporary: open the reader's eyes to a wide range of
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