Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Setelah anak tunggalnya meninggal, seorang ibu pergi ke Vietnam karena cerita-cerita yang ia temukan di Wikipedia. Seorang penyair muda mengikuti petunjuk di milis untuk menyintas patah hati. Seorang mahasiswa rantau dihantui sebuah cerita pendek yang ia temukan di buletin komunitas gay di kotanya. Pada cerita-cerita dalam buku ini, kita akan menemukan bagaimana kisahkisah lama ikut mengatur arah dan mekanisme kehidupan kita.

Cerita-Cerita Bahagia Hampir Seluruhnya

Pemenang pertama, Sayembara Manuskrip Buku Puisi Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2015 Finalis, Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa untuk Puisi 2016 Finalis, PEN Presents East and Southeast Asia Penerima, PEN Translates Award Penerima, Sastrawan Muda Asia Tenggara 2017 ÒNorman Erikson Pasaribu adalah suara ajaib dan cerdas yang baru-baru ini naik ke permukaan dunia sastra: puisi-puisinya adalah perayaan atas sejarah dan kemungkinan baru pada puisi. Patut diperhitungkan.Ó ÑChristos Tsiolkas, pengarang The Slap Sergius Seeks Bacchus (terjemahan Inggris oleh Tiffany Tsao) telah terbit di Inggris bersama Tilted Axis Press (2019), dan di Australia bersama Giramondo (2019).

33 puisi

Sergius mencari Bacchus

Hanya Kamu yang Tahu Berapa Lama Lagi Aku Harus Menunggu

Sergius Mencari Bacchus

Tatevik Sargsyan

Queer Indonesian experiences across borders and other stories told without shame

In the Back of My Throat

Sergius Seeks Bacchus

In their stunning fiction debut, queer Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu blends together speculative fiction and dark absurdism, drawing from Batak and Christian cultural elements. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, Happy Stories, Mostly introduces “one of the most important Indonesian writers today” (Litro Magazine). These twelve short stories ask what it means to be almost happy—to nearly find joy, to sort-of be accepted, but to never fully grasp one's desire. Joy shimmers on the horizon, just out of reach. An employee navigates their new workplace, a department of Heaven devoted to archiving unanswered prayers; a tourist in Vietnam seeks solace following her son’s suicide; a young student befriends a classmate obsessed with verifying the existence of a mythical hundred-foot-tall man. A tragicomic collection that probes the miraculous, melancholy nature of survival amid loneliness, Happy Stories, Mostly considers an oblique approach to human life: In the words of one of the stories’ narrators, “I work in the dark. Like mushrooms. I don’t need light to thrive.”

Happy Stories, Mostly

my life is the afterlife 

From the author of Happy Stories, Mostly and Sergius Seeks Bacchus. Their first work originally written in English.

My Dream Job is a tender playground of intellect and wit where entire worlds collide: the English and Toba Batak languages; Christian and Batak mythology; colonial violence past and present. In a voice playful, daring and not pursuing legibility above all else, Pasaribu writes the ultimate eulogy for a postcolonial dream.

Norman Erikson Pasaribu

About

Books

Join the club