{"product_id":"the-ten-thousand-things-9781590170137","title":"The Ten Thousand Things","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e, Cheryl Strayed writes of \u003ci\u003eThe Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e \"Each of Dermo t's sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.\" And it's true, \u003ci\u003eThe Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e is at once novel of shimmering strangeness--and familiarity. It 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. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermo t's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch--or European--literature had seen before. \u003ci\u003eThe Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590170137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.02w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/09\/2002 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/09\/2002\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Maria Dermout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660809957532,"sku":"9781590170137","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fd2d82a9-9047-4a51-8614-41eed2699446.jpg?v=1603897589","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ten-thousand-things-9781590170137","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}