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ISBN-10: 6162151492
ISBN-13: 9786162151491
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Publish Date: 11/30/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 0.40" H

Oceans of Longing: Nine Stories

Translator: Harry Aveling
Translator: Keith Foulcher
Translator: Brian Russell Roberts

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Price: $19.50

Overview

Born into a high-status family of the Batak ethnic group indigenous to North Sumatra, Sitor Situmorang (1924-2014) was a Dutch-educated Indonesian nationalist who experienced firsthand the transition from the Dutch East Indies of his youth to the modern Indonesia of his adulthood.

The stories in this collection are a window into the world of a writer dedicated to exploration and change but resolutely attached to the land, people, and stories of his homeland. Set variously in western Europe, post-independence Jakarta, and modernizing communities in his native North Sumatra, the stories live in–as the translators put it–the “perpetual tension between the urge to wander and a longing for origins.”

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Details

ISBN-10: 6162151492
ISBN-13: 9786162151491
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Publish Date: 11/30/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 0.40" H
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