The work goes along nicely, but as the story develops, Ruben and Dhimas slowly start to have their doubts as to how their project is progressing are they really writing the story, or is it actually writing them? The story is to look at the people of Jakarta and is based on the folktale ‘The Knight, the Princess and the Falling Star’, showing the pressures of modern society and how we are all interconnected yet unique. They decide to write a story together, one blending Dhimas’ writing skills with Ruben’s vast knowledge of the brain and the world of science (he has since become a ‘quantum psychologist’…). Ruben, a medical student, and Dhimas, a writer, share a drug-fuelled experience at a party, and back in Indonesia ten years later, the men are still in love. In honour of the event, then, I’ve decided to devote the week to Indonesian fiction, with three reviews of books by Indonesian writers for your pleasure – and here’s the second of my reviews □ĭewi Lestari’s Supernova (translated by Harry Aveling, review copy courtesy of the Lontar Foundation) begins with a meeting between two Indonesian expats in the US. This week sees the latest staging of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and 2015’s guest of honour is Indonesia, a country which is currently a blank on my literary explorers map.
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