Cerita-cerita bahagia, hampir seluruhnya | 
so-soA collection of stories by an Indonesian writer. I was pleased that I managed to get through them without too many vocabulary problems, but I'm not sure I really understood the point of most of them.
18 likes
so-soA collection of stories by an Indonesian writer. I was pleased that I managed to get through them without too many vocabulary problems, but I'm not sure I really understood the point of most of them.
pickAnother short stories collection in this year #InternationalBookerPrize2022 and this one was mixed bag for me. While I didn‘t like short short stories, the longer are pure enjoyment to read. Stories are smart, some are sad, some are ironic, but all have common thread in yearning for acceptance. I have the strong feeling that Pasaribu form to write/express in fullness is longer format than short stories.
pickNorman Erikson Pasaribu is the only author on the #InternationalBookerPrize2022 longlist who I‘ve read before, and I was surprised at just how pleased I was to see him again!
Many of the stories are written from the perspective of friends or family of gay characters, people who love them - but don‘t accept them; people who are somehow responsible for ‘mostly‘ in their happy stories. The themes are heartbreaking, yet are told with a brightness,
