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Semar's Cave
by John Mateer
Price $24.95 
- About the Book
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In 1998, after President Suharto resigned and most expats had fled, John Mateer arrived in the Sumatran city of Medan with the intention of writing a handful of poems. But Mateer’s fascination with everyday life in Indonesia’s third largest city soon led to him chronicling his daily experience. The Indonesia of Semar’s Cave is not that of the television news. Whether describing a package tour of Lake Toba with a group of Chinese families, meditating in Borobudur in Java or a literary discussion at an embassy party in Jakarta, Mateer’s insights into Indonesia are vivid and precise.
- Categories
- Biography & Autobiography, Current Affairs, Culture & Social History
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN11
- 1 92073 114 8
- ISBN13
- 9 781920 731144
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B Format (198 x 128mm)
- Pages
- 336
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From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things