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In this bewitching story-memoir, Maria Dermout recollects the moods, the colors, the emotions, the dramas of a childhood, more than half a century ago, in Java. The East Indies of long ago, and the equally magic and faraway world of childhood, are seen through time as through a gauze curtain: the house in the walled garden, the birds like animated jewels, the deer stepping carefully through wet grass, the Dutch Colonial gentlemen driving to great gala balls at twilight -- tall white candes burning in their carriage lanterns --- to waltz on marble-floored verandas with ladies in decollete; the porcelain tea pavilion in the orchard; Papa in long batik trousers and a starched white jacket at breakfast; the artist-sorcerer natives -- and the little girl born in Java of Dutch ancestors, nurtured on magic, accustomed to being surrounded by beauty.
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Simon & Schuster, 1959
ISBN 10: 9997547268
ISBN 13: 9789997547262
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First ed; Stated First Printing. In dust jacket; 8.1 X 5.3 X 0.8 inches; 119 pages. Seller Inventory # 759771