People from Bloomington [electronic resource]
Budi Darma2022
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WINNER, NSW Premier's Translation Prize, 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
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
A Penguin Classic
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 an...
Main title:
People from Bloomington [electronic resource] / Budi Darma
Author:
Budi Darma, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Random House, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (205 MB, 07:28:41 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Nathan AginNarrator: Mark BramhallNarrator: Chris CiullaNarrator: Emiko SusiloNarrator: Eric SharpNarrator: Langston DarbyNarrator: Reynaldo PiniellaNarrator: Sunil MalhotraNarrator: Tiffany Tsao
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780593558041
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
447930
Electronic access:
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eAudiobook |