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is a novelist and literary translator based near Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of The Jubilee Cycle, a science-fiction trilogy set in a dystopian future Tokyo, and the translator of A Man (2020), a ...

In 1998, Indonesia was deep in crisis. With the country reeling from soaring inflation, mass unemployment and mounting unrest, tensions erupted into protests and riots that brought an end to the three ...