People From Bloomington - Budi Darma

Winner Of The 2023nbsp;pen Translation Prize Winner Of The 2023 Nsw Premierrsquo;s Translation Prize An Eerie, Alienating, Yet Comic And Profoundly Sympathetic Short Story Collection About Americans In America By One Of Indonesiarsquo;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 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, Itrsquo;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 Anyone.