{"title":"Budi Darma","description":"Budi Darma was a novelist, short-story-writer, and literary critic. Budi Darma received several national literary awards and his international honors include the Southeast Asian Writers Award (or S.E.A. Write Award) and the Mastera Literary Award. He held a PhD in English literature from the University of Bloomington, Indiana, and was a professor at the State University of Surabaya. Tiffany Tsao (translator and introducer) is a literary translator and writer. Her translations have been awarded the PEN Presents and PEN Translates prizes. She has translated numerous Indonesian works, has written about literature in translation for Electric Literature, and is the author of The Majesties (2020) and the Oddfits series. She holds a PhD in English literature from UC-Berkeley. Intan Paramaditha (foreword author) is an Indonesian author and a lecturer in media and film studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the author of the short story collection Apple and Knife. Her debut novel Gentayangan (The Wandering), selected as Tempo Best Literary Work for Prose Fiction in 2017, received the PEN Translates Award from English PEN and the PEN\/ Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America.","products":[{"product_id":"people-from-bloomington-paperback","title":"People from Bloomington - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 PEN Translation Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2023 NSW Premier's Translation Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia's most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan Paramaditha \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these seven stories of \u003ci\u003ePeople from Bloomington\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eour peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. 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Instead, they are a statement about how everyone, regardless of nationality or race, is strange, and subject to the same tortures, suspicions, yearnings, and peculiarities of the mind.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374226145503,"sku":"9780143136606","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0YJbLmP8EE9780143136606.webp?v=1789175564"},{"product_id":"olenka-paperback","title":"Olenka - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new English translation of an existential tale of obsession by Indonesia's celebrated writer of absurdist realism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond's life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. 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