Tahukah kau? Dengarkah kau? Ada cerita bahwa tuhan itu seorang anak perempuan. Pada awalnya ada gelap dengan setitik Chhya. Dan Chhya tidak mau ada hal lain selain dirinya. Jadi dia memakan anak perempuan itu dan tertidur selamanya. Di sebuah dunia hampa tanpa tuhan, tanpa mimpi, dan tanpa dirimu. Shäánno, oner twäer ividi oshävaad... ======== "Membalik realitas menjadi maya, menghadirkan kausa prima baru, menidurkan tuhan adalah jalinan kreatif yang memesona dalam juksta posisi, Calvin M. sidjaja hadir sebagai penulis belia yang kaya akan kemampuan." - Ahmad Tohari, sastrawan dan juri sayembara Novel DKJ 2006 -
Author
Calvin Michel Sidjaja (施忠鴻) is a Chinese-Indonesian book author. He graduated from Parahyangan Catholic University, majoring International Relations. He was also a recipient of New Zealand Development Scholarship 2013-2015 and a graduate from Massey University, majoring International Development. In 2006, he won the third place of the most prestigious Indonesia literary awards, Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition for his Indonesian-language novel Jukstaposisi: Cerita tuhan Mati. In 2008 the novel received honor to become a finalist of Khatulistiwa Literary Awards 2008 for the category of Gifted Young Writers. Calvin was born in Makassar. His great grandfather, Sie Ho Long (施荷农 was migrated to Makassar in early 20th century due to massive poverty during Imperial China. His ancestry could be traced back to Shi Tiao Geng (施調賡) who was still honored in Longxi, Fujian.
