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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. This novel is the story of felicia, who returns with her baby son from. Rikki ducornet, novelist this the ten thousand things is a beautiful book. Pdf dancing with the ten thousand things download read. The ten thousand things maria dermout 18881962 was born on a sugar plantation in the dutch east indies and educated in holland. Each of dermout s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a faroff land that felt to me like the blood of all the places i used to love. Small garden, or felicia, honored one night of the year. And its true, the ten thousand things is at once novel of shimmering strangenessand familiarity.
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Just a few paragraphs and i relaxed into the story. Her celebrated novel the ten thousand things was published in 1955. The ten thousand things is a novel of shimmering strangenessthe story of maria dermout ten thousand waves, 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. The title of the book is indirectly derived from the poem xinxin ming, which is traditionally. The ten thousand things by maria dermout overdrive. A consummate stylist, maria dermout is renowned for leaving her readers with final sentences that resonate with hope and consolation. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In 1951, at the age of sixtythree, dermout published her first book, a memoir called yesterday. Books by maria dermout author of the ten thousand things.
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