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ISBN | 9786162151491 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | 164 p,140 x 216mm |
Categories | ANTHOLOGIES (NON-POETRY),Short stories,Asian history,South East Asia |
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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."