Laksmi Pamuntjak

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Laksmi's latest book, There Are Tears In Things: Collected Poems and Prose (2001-2016) by Laksmi Pamuntjak (Publication Date: 3 OCTOBER) is available at Gramedia and Aksara Bookstore outlets in Jakarta, and at Amazon.com

Laksmi Pamuntjak's national bestselling and acclaimed first novel, "The Question of Red," (American release: 12 JULY), is available at Gramedia and Aksara Bookstores in Jakarta, Kinokuniya Singapore, select bookstores in the UK and in the US, and through Amazon.com 

Winner of the 2016 Liberaturpreis in Germany, this novel combines myth, culture and politics in a beguiling tale of profound love, set against the background of the Indonesian genocide of 1965. In Fall 2015, the novel was #1 on Germany's prestigious Weltempfaenger (Receivers of the World) list of the best work of fiction from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Arab World translated into German."  

NEW EDITIONS

• The US version of The Question of Red (American Release Date: 12 July 2016) is now available at Amazon.com
 

• "Amba/The Question of Red," available in German under the title "Alle Farben Rot" (Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 2015)

• "Amba/The Question of Red," available in Dutch under the title "Amba of De Kleur van Rood" (Amsterdam: Xander Uitgevers, 2015)

• Laksmi's second novel, "Aruna dan Lidahnya" (soon to be published, in early 2017, in the US under the title "Aruna and Her Palate"), is available in every Gramedia outlets and major bookstores in Indonesia (Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2014)

•  The latest edition of the Indonesian (revised) version of Laksmi's award-winning debut novel, "Amba," will be available as of 1 April 2017 in every Gramedia outlet and major bookstores in Indonesia (Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2017).