Kepada Apakah

An ethics lecturer asks Ram, a philosophy student who also acts in the theatre, what he understands by "what". The question takes hold of him. He wants to slip out of every bond that complicates his life: between life and death, even between nouns and adjectives. It stays with him on a journey through several cities of Java and on to Ternate, where illusion and hallucination thin the line between imagination and reality, and between him and his lover Wulung. Drawn from people the author met on his own travels from 2012 on, the book reads as a kind of road novel.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

302 pages in the original

First published

2014 by Motion Publishing

ISBN

9786027005402 (original)