Sale!

Happy Stories Mostly 1st Edition by Norman Erikson Pasaribu ISBN 9781952177064 1952177065

Name: Happy Stories Mostly 1st Edition by Norman Erikson Pasaribu ISBN 9781952177064 1952177065
SKU: EB-52594068
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $25.00.

Happy Stories Mostly 1st Edition Norman Erikson Pasaribu Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Edition: 1

File Details: EPUB, 750 KB

Year: 2022

Language: english

SKU: EB-52594068 Category: Fiction - Literary Fiction Tag: Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Description

Happy Stories Mostly 1st Edition by Norman Erikson Pasaribu – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9781952177064 ,1952177065
Full download Happy Stories Mostly 1st Edition after payment

Product details:
ISBN 10: 1952177065
ISBN 13: 9781952177064
Author: Norman Erikson Pasaribu

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 1st Edition Table of contents: