Literature
Indah Darmastuti
Pengukur Bobot Dosa: Kumpulan Cerita
The Scale of Sin and Other Stories
Dalam cerita-cerita pendek Indah Darmastuti, masa lalu hampir selalu hadir secara traumatis menghantui si tokoh. Realisme, fantasi, dan khayalan psikologis membaur dan sesekali melebur.
Sepasang sepatu yang dikembalikan ke pensiunan tentara pemiliknya setelah puluhan tahun. Kakak-beradik yang memiliki kenangan buruk akan piring porselen bapaknya. Penggali kubur yang kinerjanya bergantung pada besar kecilnya dosa jenazah… Cerita-cerita pendek Indah Darmastuti membawa pembaca ke semesta yang tampak akrab sekaligus ganjil.
Indah Darmastuti menulis prosa, cerita anak, ulasan seni pertunjukan khususnya tari. Pendiri www.difalitera.org, situs web Sastra Suara untuk difabel netra yang bisa diakses dan diunduh gratis.
In Indah Darmastuti's stories, the past almost always appeared traumatically to haunt the characters. Realism merged and blended with fantasies and psychological abstractions. A pair of shoes returned to the veteran who owned them decades ago. A gravedigger whose work depended on sins of the deceased... Indah's stories takes readers to realm that strange yet familiar.
Indah Darmastuti writes fiction, poetry, children’s literature, and performing arts reviews. Indah is the founder of Difalitera, a community working toward inclusive literacy, particularly for blind people, by producing audiobooks of Indonesian literary works which can be accessed for free.