Small Souls

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Seifū Yohei III, Piet Mondrian and Mary Cassatt. Three generations of a Hague family close ranks when the eldest daughter comes home from Italy with the husband she ran off with thirty years ago. Nobody shouts; the punishment is administered entirely through calls, seating and silence. Couperus was raised partly in the Dutch East Indies and came...