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“How to Be Happy Without a Head” (title translated by AI)
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The book opens with instructions for removing a head: unzip the coil around the Adam's apple, unscrew the bolt, swallow hard, press the two buttons that stop the blood, then pull it off by the ears. Sempati finds that a head solves none of life's problems and only makes things harder, and so signs up for Free Your Head, a programme that lets people part with their heads for a while. Then, unexpectedly, the head disappears. Mixing science fiction, surrealism and thriller, the novel asks whether Sempati can be happy without it.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 300 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2019 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama
- ISBN
9786020629933 (original)