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The ten thousand things maria dermout 18881962 was born on a sugar plantation in the dutch east indies and educated in holland. The ten thousand things is a novel by the writer maria dermout. Laurel macks life stopped in many ways the day her 15yearold daughter, ellie, left the house to study at the library and never returned. Hans koning 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.
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