| Oceans of Longing: Nine Stories Contributor(s): Situmorang, Sitor (Author), Aveling, Harry (Translator), Foulcher, Keith (Translator) |
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ISBN: 6162151492 ISBN-13: 9786162151491 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $21.38 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2018317318 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.45 lbs) 164 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |
