The novel was launched in 2017 with a short movie of the same title. Her latest work, Laut Bercerita, a novel on the kidnapping of 1998 activists, is a national best seller and will soon appear in English under the title The Sea Speaks His Name. Her literary career began at an early age, and since then she has published two short story collections, 9 Dari Nadira and Malam Terakhir, and The Longest Kiss, which was published in English and German. Her first novel, Pulang ( Home) follows the lives of the 1965 Indonesian political exiles in Europe, and has received the Khatulistiwa Award in 2013 for Best Prose that has been translated into five languages, including English, German, and Dutch. Chudori is an author, journalist and regular contributor to Tempo Magazine, and screenwriter for film and television.
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So we arranged to meet and I stepped off the train in Avignon. The last time I saw her, Christine gave me the Polish-English dictionary covered in her notes from which she’d once gone about learning the language. One of her three husbands, Jerzy, from whom she had remained separated for many years, but with whom she was still occasionally in touch, was a Polish poet. When I arranged to meet her during a crackling phone call in which she seemed more distant than I could imagine (it turned out later she was also trying to watch the tennis), she immediately became interested in my surname. From the start names were so very important. Christine the experimenter and Christine a woman who made me laugh until it hurt. I’m not entirely sure as I don’t really mix in the circles that would say they know and although I think she’d be very glad to be thought of like that, to me she will always be a scream. Since then, probably starting well before then, as I think I was jumping into some kind of a slip-stream generated by the interest of people like Stuart Kelly, Christine (I will use her first name as that’s what I ended up doing) has become rehabilitated as one of our leading experimental writers. I’m on an early morning train heading north through Kent as the sun rises on my right, contemplating another journey from over ten years ago, when I travelled to a little village near Avignon to meet the writer Christine Brooke-Rose. After reading this book I would always think of how to make the world more beautiful. I chose this book because it was one of my favorite books as a child. At the end of the book she tells her niece that she must also do something to make the world more beautiful. When spring came around there were lupines everywhere and everyone called her The Lupine Lady. She realizes that in order to make the world more beautiful she will plant lupine seeds everywhere so that they will bloom the following spring. When she was well enough the next time spring came in she had lupines in her garden. After she plants the flowers she becomes ill and stays in her home for most of spring. Then after her travels she finds a little house by the sea to live in and she plants flowers in her garden. The story continues when she is all grown up and begins traveling to faraway places such as tropical islands, mountains, jungles, and deserts. But her grandfather tells her that she must also make the world more beautiful. She tells him that when she grows older she would like to travel to faraway places and live by the sea. A summary of the story is about a little girl named Alice and her grandfather would tell her stories about living in faraway places. The book I chose to analyze is called Miss Rumphius written by Barbara Cooney. |