People from Bloomington
Budi Darma, 1937-2022
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In these seven stories of the people from Bloomington, our peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. Set in Bloomington, Indiana, where the author lived as a graduate student in the 1970s, this is far from the idyllic portrait of small-town America. Rather, sectioned into apartment units and rented rooms, and gridded by long empty streets and distances traversable only by car, it's a place where the solitary can all too easily remain solitary; where people can at once be obsessively curious about others, yet fail to form genuine connections with anyone. The characters feel their loneliness acutely and yet deliberately estrange others.
Main title:
People from Bloomington / Budi Darma.
Author:
Edition:
New edition / foreword by Intan Paramaditha ; introduced and translated by Tiffany Tsao.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2022.London : Penguin Classics, 2022.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Indonesian.
ISBN:
9780143136606 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishIndonesian
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BRN:
2680039