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Sitor Situmorang, one of the most celebrated Indonesian literary
voices of the twentieth century, claimed that all his work dealt
with a single theme-"love and wanderlust," which are "two aspects
of one and the same experience." His remarkable short stories are
celebrations of modern life, dealing with subjects such as seeking,
belonging, identity, masculinity, and sensual interaction with the
world at large. The characters are both introspective and physical,
the settings sparse but evocative, the circumstances ordinary yet
unexpected. The publication of this volume of fourteen stories is
the culmination of a request Sitor once made of Harry Aveling to
render his stories in English. The translation of his complete
short stories now shares the exceptional creative prose of Sitor
Situmorang with audiences around the world.
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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