The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrea Hirata's Indonesian bestseller, The Rainbow Troops.
This 2005 novel has actually been available in English for quite a while -- just not very readily available (i.e. hardly at all outside the South East Asian area). But Farrar, Straus & Giroux picked up the American rights and now it is readily available -- though it will be a tall order for English-language sales to equal Indonesian ones.
This is the biggest big-publisher translation-from-the-Indonesian to get published in the US since the works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and it'll be interesting to see how it does (and whether it does well enough for them to commit to the next volumes in the tetralogy).
I do remind you that the estimable Modern Library of Indonesia from Lontar makes quite a few other works of Indonesian literature available (several are under review at the complete review, and I'm slowly making my way through more).
This 2005 novel has actually been available in English for quite a while -- just not very readily available (i.e. hardly at all outside the South East Asian area). But Farrar, Straus & Giroux picked up the American rights and now it is readily available -- though it will be a tall order for English-language sales to equal Indonesian ones.
This is the biggest big-publisher translation-from-the-Indonesian to get published in the US since the works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and it'll be interesting to see how it does (and whether it does well enough for them to commit to the next volumes in the tetralogy).
I do remind you that the estimable Modern Library of Indonesia from Lontar makes quite a few other works of Indonesian literature available (several are under review at the complete review, and I'm slowly making my way through more).