“An ambitious saga that intertwines narration from various generations and creates a wide-ranging picture of Indonesia.” —Publishers Weekly
An epic saga of “families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history” (Time magazine), Home combines political repression and exile with a spicy mixture of love, family, and food, alternating between Paris and Jakarta in the time between Suharto’s 1965 rise to power and downfall in 1998, further illuminating Indonesia’s tragic twentieth-century history popularized by the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing.
Leila S. Chudori is Indonesia’s most prominent female journalist. Home is her debut novel and won Indonesia’s most important literary prize in 2013.
Author Leila S. Chudori
Translator John H. McGlynn
Format Paperback, English
Page(s) 500
ISBN/ISBN13 1941920101/978-1941920107
Published Date Oct 27, 2015
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
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Translator John H. McGlynn
Format Paperback, English
Page(s) 500
ISBN/ISBN13 1941920101/978-1941920107
Published Date Oct 27, 2015
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
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Buy Now from Amazon *
As seen as
Home is not only a story of personal and historical memories in a search for identity. It also shows that it is possible to change things, to give birth to a new humanity and a new Indonesia through lessons of the past.
— in Indonesian Literature in Translation (Apr 22, 2017)
— in Indonesian Literature in Translation (Apr 22, 2017)
For authors such as Chudori who are now reconstructing this lost history there is a further complication: that of Pramoedya’s immense legacy.
— in That foreign substance (The original title was: Indonesia’s lost history) (Feb 03, 2016)
— in That foreign substance (The original title was: Indonesia’s lost history) (Feb 03, 2016)
The novel stays grounded with nostalgic themes of food and love, anchoring the reader with mouthwatering detail and the intrigue of Romeo and Juliet–esque affairs
— in Home (Oct 26, 2015)
— in Home (Oct 26, 2015)
A highly entertaining epic, with a plethora of historical stories to tell.
— in Home – Leila S. Chudori (translated by John H. McGlynn) (Sep 30, 2015)
— in Home – Leila S. Chudori (translated by John H. McGlynn) (Sep 30, 2015)
