Saman
by Ayu Utami
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Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic "hero" Saman. It is at once an exposE 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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An odd book in that it had a wide array of central characters, Saman only being slightly more central, and a variety of reporting styles from fantasy fiction, to e-mails, and dealt with a number of issues from adultery to corporate bullies. Despite it all, I identified with the characters and enjoyed the book.
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- Canonical title*
- Saman
- Original title
- Saman
- Important places*
- Indonesien
- First words*
- Hier in diesem Park - hier bin ich ein Vogel.
- Original language*
- Indonesisch
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- Genres
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
- LCC
- PL5089 .U836 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Oceania Malayan (Indonesian) languages
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- Members
- 112
- Popularity
- 289,234
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.48)
- Languages
- 6 — Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 1
