SAMAN

Literature & Fiction

Utami, Ayu

Genre Fiction

Flammarion

Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic "hero" Saman. It is at once an exposé of the oppression of plantation workers in South Sumatra, a lyrical quest to understand the place of religion and spirituality in contemporary lives, a playful exploration of female sexuality and a story about love in all its guises, while touching on all of Indonesia's taboos: extramarital sex, political repression and the relationship between Christians and Muslims. Saman has taken the Indonesian literary world by storm and sold over 100,000 copies in the Indonesian language, and is now available for the first time in English.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ayu Utami was born in Bogor, grew up in Jakarta and obtained her bachelor degree in Literature Studies from University of Indonesia. She worked as a journalist for Matra, Forum Keadilan, and D&amp;R. Not long after the New Order regime closed Tempo, Editor, and Detik, she participated in the founding of Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists to protest the closure of those three weeklys. Currently she is working for the cultural journal Kalam, and at Teater Utan Kayu. Saman was awarded the Prince Claus Award in the year 2000.

Saman

Contemporary

Equinox Pub

Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic "hero" Saman. It is at once an exposé of the oppression of plantation workers in South Sumatra, a lyrical quest to understand the place of religion and spirituality in contemporary lives, a playful exploration of female sexuality and a story about love in all its guises, while touching on all of Indonesia's taboos: extramarital sex, political repression and the relationship between Christians and Muslims.  Saman has taken the Indonesian literary world by storm and sold over 100,000 copies in the Indonesian language, and is now available for the first time in English.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ayu Utami was born in Bogor, grew up in Jakarta and obtained her bachelor degree in Literature Studies from University of Indonesia. She worked as a journalist for Matra, Forum Keadilan, and D&R. Not long after the New Order regime closed Tempo, Editor, and Detik, she participated in the founding of Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists to protest the closure of those three weeklys. Currently she is working for the cultural journal Kalam, and at Teater Utan Kayu. Saman was awarded the Prince Claus Award in the year 2000.

Saman: Fragmen dari novel Laila tak mampir di New York

Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia

Larung

KPG (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia) bekerjasama dengan Jurnal Kebudayaan Kalam

Manjali dan Cakrabirawa (Indonesian Edition)

Sinopsis:   Larung adalah lanjutan novel Saman. Di penghujung masa Orde Baru, Saman telah tinggal di New York sebagai pelarian politik. Ia bertemu lagi dengan empat sahabat yang dulu membantu ia kabur dari Indonesia: Shakuntala, Cok, Yasmin, dan Laila. Kini mereka memiliki misi baru: membantu aktivis mahasiswa kiri melarikan diri dari kejaran rezim militer. Misi ini dibantu oleh seorang pemuda misterius dengan karakter gelap: Larung.   Akankah misi itu berhasil? Ataukah Larung justru menyeret mereka ke dalam kegelapan? Larung telah diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Belanda.  (http://gramediana.com/books/detail/901130663-larung)

Larung (Indonesian Edition)

Saman (Indonesian Edition)

Synopsis: 
SAMAN is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic “hero” Saman. It is at once an exposé of the oppression of plantation workers in South Sumatra as well as a lyrical quest to understand the place of religion and spirituality in contemporary lives. It is a playful exploration of female sexuality and a story about love in all its guises while touching on all of Indonesia’s taboos. Saman has taken the Indonesian literary world by storm and sold over 100000 copies in the Indonesian language and has been translated into nine languages. 
Ayu Utami is an award-winning Indonesian writer, who was the 2000 Prince Claus Award Laureate. Her works are considered to have broadened the horizons of Indonesian literature. During Indonesia’s military regime she was a journalist and press freedom activist. She was one of the founders of the Alliance of Independent Journalists, an organization that was latter banned by the regime. After the political change, she focused on writing novels. Her stories always reflect Indonesian society and the country’s political situation.

Women's Fiction

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