{"product_id":"9781590178829","title":"The Ten Thousand Things","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e, Cheryl Strayed writes of \u003ci\u003eThe Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e:  \"Each of Dermoût’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 Dermoût'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.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164919283952,"sku":"9781590178829","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590178829_p0.jpg?v=1763804543","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590178829","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}