Oceans of Longing - Nine Stories (Paperback)

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."

General

Imprint:	Silkworm Books
Country of origin:	Thailand
Release date:	August 2019
Authors:	Sitor Situmorang
Translators:	Harry Aveling • Keith Foulcher • Brian Russell Roberts
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-6162151491
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	6162151492
Barcode:	9786162151491

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