Excerpts from the novel 24 Hours with Gaspar A Detective Story

BySabda Armandio (author), Isla Winarto (translator)

Short Description:

24 Hours with Gaspar, A Detective Story is a satirical, unconventional and comic-like take on the generic, standard crime novel. Sabda plays with the reader as the story fluctuates from easy-to-follow narratives to the story’s trajectory and structure suddenly being corrupted through incessant repetitions of a line.

About the Author:

Sabda Armandio is an essayist, novelist, literary translator, short-story writer and musician born in 1991. Published in 2017, 24 Hours with Gaspar, a Detective Story, won first prize in the Jakarta Arts Council’s Novel Competition as well as the Goodreads’ Choice Award for Favourite Book.