The Longing
$28.59
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2025
Summary
A story of love, loss, turbulence, and mended relationships narrated from the eyes of a young woman who traces her family history from the 1950s to the 2010s in Surabaya, East Java.
“This novel is both an act of remembrance and resistance. A necessary novel for our time.” - Okky Madasari, Indonesian novelist and sociologist
It is in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, in the 1950s, when Ah Lam is married off to Cheng Lei, the son of a wealthy merchant, to help improve her family’s s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815295405 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 9815295403 |
| Author: | Alberta Natasia Adji |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 136mm x 215mm |
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Alberta Natasia Adji
Alberta Natasia Adji is a Chinese-Indonesian writer from Surabaya, East Java, who currently lives in Perth, Western Australia. Before coming to Australia, she published two novels in Indonesian: Youth Adagio (2013), a young adult romance fiction, and Dante: The Faery and the Wizard (2014), a young adult fantasy fiction. She also published short stories in the coming-of-age genre in Jawa Pos, an Indonesian national daily newspaper.
After moving to Australia, she pursued her academic interests and completed her PhD in creative writing from Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, in 2023. The Longing, the main component of her doctoral project, is her first novel published in English. She was awarded the 2023 School of Arts and Humanities Research Medal by ECU for her doctoral research thesis. Excerpts from The Longing have appeared in Meniscus and New Writing. Her short fiction has also been published in The in/completeness of human experience (Special Issue of TEXT-Journal of Writing and Writing Courses), which was later published as The Incompleteness Book (2020, Recent Work Press), and The Incompleteness Book II: Writing Back & Thinking Forward (2021, Recent Work Press). She has also published refereed articles in various academic journals.
In 2024, she published an academic book, Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature: Narrativising Rural Lifescape, by Palgrave Macmillan. She enjoys food, detective novels, lengthy fantasy stories, nature walks, and Studio Ghibli movies.
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