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The Ten Thousand Things (Indonesia)

Author(s): Maria Dermout

Location(s): Indonesia

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 19th Century

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The Ten Thousand Things 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.

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I can see why some could compare the writing style to that of Hemingway, but Dermout’s imprint is clearly a feminine one. The language is simple and the sense of nostalgia it conjures up is...

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