Excerpts from the novel Arrived Before Departing

By Faisal Oddang (author), Marjorie Suanda (translator)

Short Description:

These excerpts from Arrived before Departing are melancholy to read. Centralized around a family’s dynamics, this story questions the taboo and issues about sexuality, religious stereotypes, collective ideologies within a community and navigating traditional spiritualism within a modernized world.

About the Author:

Faisal Oddang was born in Wajo, South Sulawesi in 1994. He is a novelist, short-story writer and poet whose works have received many literary awards. Oddang was a winner of the 2014 ASEAN Young Writers Award Short Story Writing Competition and his novel Puya ke Puya was announced the best novel of 2015 by Tempo Magazine.