Copyright
© Norman Erikson Pasaribu 2019
Translation copyright © Tiffany Tsao 2019
This edition published in the United Kingdom by Tilted Axis Press in 2019. This translation was funded by Arts Council England.
This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN’s “PEN Translates” programme, supported by Arts Council England. English PEN exists to promote literature and our understanding of it, to uphold writers’ freedoms around the world, to campaign against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and to promote the friendly co-operation of writers and the free exchange of ideas.
First published 2016 in Indonesian by Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama as Sergius Mencari Bacchus.
The rights of Norman Erikson Pasaribu to be identified as the author and Tiffany Tsao as the translator of this work have been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
ISBN (paperback) 9781911284239
ISBN (ebook) 9781911284215
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