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Book

People from Bloomington

Call Number

  • FICTION BUDI (CEN)

Languages

In English, translated from the Indonesian.

Publication Information

[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, [2022]

Physical Description

xli, 163 pages ; 20 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Notes

"First published in Indonesia as Orang-Orang Bloomington by Sinar Harapan in 1980"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • The Old man with no name
  • Joshua Karabish
  • The Family M
  • Orez
  • Yorrick
  • Mrs. Elbert
  • Charles Lebourne.

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