Oceans of Longing: Nine Stories

By Sitor Situmorang

Born into a high-status family of the Batak ethnic group indigenous to North Sumatra, Sitor Situmorang (1924-2014) was a Dutch-educated Indonesian nationalist who experienced firsthand the transition from the Dutch East Indies of his youth to the modern Indonesia of his adulthood.

The stories in this collection are a window into the world of a writer dedicated to exploration and change but resolutely attached to the land, people, and stories of his homeland. Set variously in western Europe, post-independence Jakarta, and modernizing communities in his native North Sumatra, the stories live in--as the translators put it--the "perpetual tension between the urge to wander and a longing for origins."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6162151492
• ISBN13: 9786162151491
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Silkworm Books
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher