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Oceans of Longing

Nine Stories

Sitor Situmorang author Harry Aveling translator Keith Foulcher translator Brian Russell Roberts translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP

Published:1st Aug '19

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Oceans of Longing cover

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."

ISBN: 9786162151491

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 204g

164 pages